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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several valuable Taric against Rell counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rell’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rell..
Taric normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rell. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taric usually wins when playing against Rell, with a 52.6% win rate. As a result, Taric makes a good counter for Rell.
While Taric does have a higher win rate than Rell, when on opposite teams, Taric also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Rell.
Additionally, Taric also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rell. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taric vs Rell matchups, Taric is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Taric is a good counter to Rell. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Rell.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to counter Rell during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric often racks up a similar amount of CS as Rell. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Taric versus Rell build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Rell than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Taric had an average winrate of 52.6% when countering Rell with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Rell 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 runes that we analyzed for Taric vs Rell LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Rell as Taric are presented for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.