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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 Naafiri Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Naafiri sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Taric. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Taric helps Naafiri perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri is an ally to Taric, they sees a little increase in their full damage output. This may indicate that Taric helps provide protection for them to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Taric on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Taric.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Taric on the same team, they on average receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Taric does a decent job of covering Naafiri during teamfights.
There is no perfect companion for Naafiri that will no matter what be their top teammate. Yet, Taric is a very typical companion for Naafiri. By being on the same team as Naafiri, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 49.6%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Naafiri and Taric that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Taric has a greater difficulty than Naafiri. That means Naafiri players need to be very careful when lining up Taric allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Naafiri players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Naafiri and Taric together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Taric ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Naafiri to pair well with Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Naafiri and Taric synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri bought at least these three great items in their build, they performed a lot better as an ally of Taric than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Taric with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Taric with Naafiri are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.