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.
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
The stats shown on this page clarify some critical Taric versus Ryze matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ryze. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Taric often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ryze. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taric usually loses when facing off against Ryze, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes a poor counter for Ryze.
While Taric does have a lower win rate than Ryze, when facing one another, Taric also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Taric into Ryze.
Furthermore, Taric has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Taric is a somewhat poor counter for Ryze. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Ryze.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric usually accumulates a lot less CS as Ryze. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot 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 numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Taric versus Ryze build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Taric combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Ryze than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Taric had an average winrate of 48.5% when countering Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Ryze as Taric, you should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Taric vs Ryze counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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