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.
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Taric against Vladimir counter statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vladimir’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vladimir. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Taric often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Vladimir. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when facing off against Vladimir, with a 52.3% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes a good counter for Vladimir.
While Taric does have a higher win rate than Vladimir, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Vladimir.
Furthermore, Taric has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vladimir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Vladimir 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Taric is an above average counter for Vladimir. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Taric against Vladimir.
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Vladimir. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Taric versus Vladimir build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Taric bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Vladimir than with many other common item sets. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 52.3% when countering Vladimir with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Vladimir as Taric, Taric players should equip 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 builds players used for Taric vs Vladimir counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
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