Alistar with Taric
How to Synergize Alistar and Taric
based on 80 Alistar with Taric pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Taric Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Taric
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Taric
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Alistar Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Taric. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Taric helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Taric, he gets a very large increase in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Taric helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Taric on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Taric.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Taric on the same team, he usually takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Taric does a poor job of protecting Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Taric
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Taric?
There is no top ally for Alistar that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Taric is a great companion for Alistar. By playing on the same team as Alistar, he raises their win rate by 5.6% to 55.0%. This signals that there is a very real bond between Alistar and Taric that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Taric has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Taric comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Alistar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by aligning Alistar and Taric together, you may not be granting your side much AD. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Taric ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to synergize with Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Alistar and Taric synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Frozen Heart. When Alistar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Taric than with most other common builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 55.0% helping carry Taric with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Alistar and Taric pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 55.0% winrate overall.
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