Zilean vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Zilean
based on 416 Zilean vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Taric Counter Build
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Core Zilean Items
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Guide to Countering Taric as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Taric
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby 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.
Zilean vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some significant Zilean against Taric matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taric..
Zilean normally has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Taric. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zilean and Taric
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Who is Better, Zilean or Taric?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zilean usually fairs equally well when facing off against Taric, with a 50.7% win rate. Therefore, Zilean makes an ok counter to Taric.
While Zilean does have a higher winrate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Zilean also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Zilean into Taric.
Furthermore, Zilean also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Taric matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zilean is a decent counter to Taric. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Zilean against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to counter Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean on average accumulates more CS compared to Taric. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zilean versus Taric build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Taric than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when countering Taric with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Taric as Zilean, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Zilean vs Taric fights, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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