Taric vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Taric
based on 1,030 Taric vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Sion
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 Sion
Use the time after Sion has died to reposition and prepare for his return.
Even if Sion still hits a Decimating Smash, making him release the charge earlier reduces its impact.
Taric vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Taric in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some valuable Taric against Sion matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between these two champs. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sion. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Taric often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Sion. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Sion
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Who is Better, Taric or Sion?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when taking on Sion, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a good counter for Sion.
While Taric does have a higher win rate compared to Sion, when on opposite teams, Taric also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Sion.
Furthermore, Taric also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sion. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taric vs Sion matchups, Taric is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Taric is a good counter for Sion. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taric against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to counter Sion during both the laning 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 listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric often gets a lot less CS as Sion. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Taric versus Sion build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Sion than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Sion with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Sion as Taric, you should use 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 players picked for Taric vs Sion fights, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.2% winrate overall.
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