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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several influential Taric versus Lissandra matchup statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lissandra. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Taric often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when playing against Lissandra, with a 54.3% win rate. As a result, Taric makes a great counter for Lissandra.
While Taric does have a much higher win rate compared to Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Lissandra.
Furthermore, Taric also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Lissandra 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Taric is a great counter to Lissandra. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Taric against Lissandra.
To truly master Taric to counter Lissandra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric on average gets a lot less CS as Lissandra. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Taric versus Lissandra build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Lissandra than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Taric had an average winrate of 54.3% when countering Lissandra with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Lissandra 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 rune combinations we have analyed for Taric vs Lissandra fights, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lissandra as Taric are shown for every ranked division. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.