The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Purchasing Vision Wards can help you detect Evelynn's location in order to prepare for her ambushes.
A large share of Evelynn's threat is in her charm, 'Allure.' Protect allies marked with 'Allure' or, if you are marked, make sure allies are between you and where Evelynn may attack from.
If you suspect Evelynn is about to ambush one of your teammates, let them know by pinging the minimap and typing in chat.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Taric versus Evelynn matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Evelynn’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Evelynn. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Taric usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Evelynn. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taric usually wins when facing off against Evelynn, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a good counter to Evelynn.
While Taric does have a higher winrate than Evelynn, when facing one another, Taric also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Taric into Evelynn.
Moreover, Taric has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Evelynn. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Evelynn matchups, Taric is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Taric is a decent counter for Evelynn. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Taric against Evelynn.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to counter Evelynn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric typically picks up more CS relative to Evelynn. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Taric versus Evelynn build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Taric bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Evelynn than with many other common item sets. In fact, Taric had an average winrate of 51.8% when countering Evelynn with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Evelynn as Taric, you should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Taric vs Evelynn counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
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