Taric vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Taric
based on 738 Taric vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Taric vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Taric in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several vital Taric against Vel'Koz counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Taric often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Taric or Vel'Koz?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when facing off against Vel'Koz, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes a good counter to Vel'Koz.
While Taric does have a higher win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Taric into Vel'Koz.
Moreover, Taric has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Vel'Koz matchups, Taric is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Taric is a decent counter for Vel'Koz. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Taric against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric typically racks up less CS as Vel'Koz. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Taric versus Vel'Koz build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 51.1% battling Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Vel'Koz 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 runes we have analyed for Taric vs Vel'Koz LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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