Taric vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Taric
based on 963 Taric vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Taric vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Taric in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some influential Taric against Irelia matchup stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Taric usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Irelia
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Who is Better, Taric or Irelia?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when playing against Irelia, with a 56.5% win rate. As a result, Taric makes a fantastic counter for Irelia.
While Taric does have a much higher winrate compared to Irelia, when facing one another, Taric also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Irelia.
Moreover, Taric also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often 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 Irelia 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 teammates during team fights.
Taric is a great counter for Irelia. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Taric against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Irelia. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Taric versus Irelia build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Irelia than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 56.5% battling Irelia with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Irelia as Taric, Taric players 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 combinations that we analyzed for Taric vs Irelia battles, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 56.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Irelia as Taric are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.