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.
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
The Taric Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Taric sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Brand helps Taric perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taric is an ally to Brand, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Brand does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played with Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Brand.
Moreover, when Taric plays with Brand on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Brand does a poor job of covering Taric during team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Taric that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Brand is a decent teammate for Taric. By playing on the same side as Taric, he raises their win rate by 2.5% to 54.7%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Taric and Brand that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Brand has a greater difficulty than Taric. That means Taric players must be careful when lining up Brand comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Taric and Brand together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Taric in order to work well with Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Taric and Brand synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Taric combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Brand than with most other typical builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 54.7% when playing alongside Brand with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.7% win rate overall.
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