Taric vs Zac
How to Beat Zac as Taric
based on 811 Taric vs Zac matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Zac Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zac as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Zac
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 Zac
Kill all of Zac's bloblets when he splits apart to stop him from reforming.
Silences, stuns, roots and knockups will all interrupt Zac when he is charging Elastic Slingshot.
Zac heals from the goo that separates from him. You can crush the goo pieces by stepping on them.
Taric vs Zac Counter Stats
How to Counter Zac with Taric in LoL
The stats provided here show several strategic Taric versus Zac counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zac’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Zac..
Taric often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Zac. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Zac
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Who is Better, Taric or Zac?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taric usually loses when taking on Zac, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a poor counter for Zac.
While Taric does have a lower winrate compared to Zac, when facing one another, Taric also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Taric into Zac.
Furthermore, Taric has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zac. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Taric is a somewhat poor counter for Zac. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taric against Zac.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Taric in order to counter Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric on average gets less CS relative to Zac. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Taric versus Zac build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Taric combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Zac than with most other typical builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 48.3% when playing against Zac with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Zac 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 rune builds that we analyzed for Taric vs Zac clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
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