Ziggs vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Ziggs
based on 516 Ziggs vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Taric Counter Build
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Core Ziggs Items
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Guide to Countering Taric as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Taric
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Advice to Win Against Taric
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.
Ziggs vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several significant Ziggs vs. Taric matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Ziggs usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Taric. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ziggs and Taric
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Taric?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when trying to fight Taric, with a 45.5% win rate. Therefore, Ziggs makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Ziggs does have a much lower winrate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Ziggs also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Ziggs into Taric.
Additionally, Ziggs has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a terribly counter for Taric. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ziggs against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs most often picks up much more CS compared to Taric. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, 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 situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Ziggs versus Taric build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Taric than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 45.5% battling Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Taric as Ziggs, Ziggs players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Ziggs vs Taric counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.5% win rate overall.
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