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.
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some significant Taric against Vi counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vi’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vi. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Taric typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Vi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when taking on Vi, with a 53.1% win rate. As a result, Taric makes a great counter for Vi.
While Taric does have a higher win rate compared to Vi, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Vi.
Furthermore, Taric has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taric vs Vi matchups, Taric is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Taric is a great counter for Vi. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Taric against Vi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to counter Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Vi. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Taric versus Vi build consist of Fimbulwinter, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Taric incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Vi than with most other common item sets. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 53.1% battling Vi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Vi as Taric, Taric players 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 players used for Taric vs Vi matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.1% winrate overall.
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