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Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
The Illaoi Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Taric. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Taric helps Illaoi perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi tries to synergize with Taric, she gets a small increase in her total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Taric provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside Taric on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Taric. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Taric.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Taric on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Taric does a decent job of covering Illaoi during team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, Taric is a decent companion for Illaoi. By being on the same team as Illaoi, he raises their win rate by 2.8% to 52.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Illaoi and Taric that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Taric has a lower difficulty than Illaoi. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Taric allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Illaoi players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Illaoi and Taric together, you may not be giving your other allies much AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Taric ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to work well with Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Illaoi and Taric synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Taric than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 52.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Taric with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Taric with Illaoi are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.