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.
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several vital Taric vs. Janna counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Janna..
Taric normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Janna. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taric usually loses when facing off against Janna, with a 47.3% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a bad counter to Janna.
While Taric does have a lower win rate compared to Janna, when facing one another, Taric also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Taric into Janna.
Moreover, Taric has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Taric is a garbage counter for Janna. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taric against Janna.
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric often gets a similar amount of CS as Janna. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Taric versus Janna build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Janna than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 47.3% battling Janna with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Janna as Taric, Taric players 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 rune combinations we have analyed for Taric vs Janna counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.3% winrate overall.
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