A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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 underscore several vital Vi versus Taric counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. Vi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Vi normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vi usually loses when trying to fight Taric, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Vi makes a bad counter for Taric.
While Vi does have a lower win rate than Taric, when facing one another, Vi also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Vi into Taric.
Moreover, Vi has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vi vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Vi is a trash counter to Taric. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vi against Taric.
To learn all of the intricacies of Vi to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vi typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Taric. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Vi versus Taric build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Vi included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Taric than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Vi had an average winrate of 46.9% battling Taric with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Taric as Vi, Vi players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Vi vs Taric matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
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