Taric vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Taric
based on 1,279 Taric vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Taric vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Taric in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several important Taric versus Katarina matchup stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Katarina. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Taric typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Katarina. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Katarina
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Who is Better, Taric or Katarina?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taric usually wins when trying to fight Katarina, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Taric makes a good counter for Katarina.
While Taric does have a higher winrate compared to Katarina, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Taric into Katarina.
Additionally, Taric also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Katarina matchups, Taric is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Taric is a decent counter for Katarina. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Katarina 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Katarina. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Taric versus Katarina build consist of Fimbulwinter, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 51.4% battling Katarina with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Katarina 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Taric vs Katarina LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
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