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.
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Taric vs. Soraka counter statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Soraka..
Taric often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Soraka. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when trying to fight Soraka, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a good counter to Soraka.
While Taric does have a higher winrate compared to Soraka, when on opposite teams, Taric also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Soraka.
Additionally, Taric also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Soraka matchups, Taric is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Taric is an above average counter for Soraka. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taric against Soraka.
To truly master Taric in order to counter Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Soraka. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, 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 exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Taric versus Soraka build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Soraka than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 52.5% battling Soraka with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Soraka 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 builds we have analyed for Taric vs Soraka face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
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