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 provided here feature some critical Viego against Taric matchup stats that may help you explain the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Viego’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Viego may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Viego often has a much larger longest killing spree than their foe does. Typically, they takes more damage than Taric. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Viego usually loses when trying to fight Taric, with a 47.3% win rate. As a result, Viego makes a bad counter for Taric.
While Viego does have a lower winrate than Taric, when they face off with one another, Viego also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more time consuming character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Viego into Taric.
Additionally, Viego also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Viego vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Viego is a terribly counter for Taric. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Viego against Taric.
To truly master Viego 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viego usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Taric. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Viego versus Taric build consist of Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Kraken Slayer. When Viego included at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better against Taric than with many other typical builds. In fact, Viego boasted an average win rate of 47.3% when playing against Taric with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Taric as Viego, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Viego vs Taric counter picks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Taric as Viego are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.