Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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 Irelia 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, Irelia sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Taric. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Taric helps Irelia perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia plays on the same team as Taric, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Taric provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played with Taric on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Taric.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Taric on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Taric does a decent job of protecting Irelia during teamfights.
There is no top companion for Irelia that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Taric is a pretty good ally for Irelia. By locking into the same team as Irelia, he increases their win rate by 2.5% to 52.3%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Irelia and Taric that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Taric has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players don't need to be very careful when lining up Taric comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Irelia and Taric together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Taric ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Irelia in order to pair well with Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Irelia and Taric synergy build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Taric than with most other common builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 52.3% helping carry Taric with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Taric with Irelia are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu above.