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 release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
The Taric Galio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Galio, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Galio. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Galio helps Taric perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Taric plays on the same team as Galio, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Galio helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played with Galio on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Galio.
Moreover, when Taric plays with Galio on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Galio does a decent job of covering Taric during team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Taric that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Galio is a very typical companion for Taric. By being on the same side as Taric, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 52.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Taric and Galio that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Galio has a greater difficulty than Taric. That means you must be cautious when lining up Galio allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Taric players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by bringing Taric and Galio together, you may not be providing your other teammates much AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Galio ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Taric in order to work well with Galio during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Taric and Galio synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Taric incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Galio than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 52.9% helping carry Galio with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Taric players should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Taric and Galio pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
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