Taric vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Taric
based on 730 Taric vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Gragas
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.
Advice to Win Against Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Taric vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Taric in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some significant Taric versus Gragas matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between the two. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Gragas. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Taric often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Gragas. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Gragas
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Who is Better, Taric or Gragas?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when trying to fight Gragas, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes a good counter to Gragas.
While Taric does have a higher win rate than Gragas, when on opposite teams, Taric also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Gragas.
Moreover, Taric has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taric vs Gragas matchups, Taric is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Taric is a good counter for Gragas. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric usually picks up less CS as Gragas. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Taric versus Gragas build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Gragas than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against Gragas with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Gragas as Taric, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Taric vs Gragas matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% win rate overall.
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