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.
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
The stats shown here highlight several important Taric versus Hwei counter stats that may help you explain the differences between the two. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Hwei’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Hwei. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Taric often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Hwei. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taric usually wins when taking on Hwei, with a 54.4% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a great counter for Hwei.
While Taric does have a much higher win rate compared to Hwei, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Hwei.
Furthermore, Taric has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hwei. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Hwei matchups, Taric is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Taric is a great counter to Hwei. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Taric against Hwei.
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to counter Hwei during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Hwei. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Taric versus Hwei build include Knight's Vow, Fimbulwinter, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Hwei than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 54.4% battling Hwei with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Hwei as Taric, you should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Taric vs Hwei counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.4% winrate overall.
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