Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some critical Vex versus Taric counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the pair. Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Vex normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Taric. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vex usually loses when taking on Taric, with a 45.8% win rate. As a result, Vex makes a bad counter to Taric.
While Vex does have a much lower win rate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Vex also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Vex into Taric.
Moreover, Vex also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vex vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vex is a garbage counter for Taric. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vex against Taric.
To learn all of the intricacies of Vex to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex often gets much more CS relative to Taric. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have 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 top items to focus on in your Vex versus Taric build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vex bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better vs. Taric than with most other common builds. In fact, Vex boasted an average win rate of 45.8% when countering Taric with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Taric as Vex, Vex players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vex vs Taric battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.8% winrate overall.
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