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.
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several critical Taric against Veigar matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Veigar. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Taric usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Veigar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taric usually loses when taking on Veigar, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a bad counter for Veigar.
While Taric does have a lower winrate than Veigar, when facing one another, Taric also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Taric into Veigar.
Additionally, Taric has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Veigar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Taric is a bad counter for Veigar. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Veigar.
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Veigar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric on average picks up a lot less CS relative to Veigar. Champs who on average don't acquire 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Taric versus Veigar build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Veigar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Veigar 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. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Taric vs Veigar battles, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Veigar as Taric are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.