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.
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
The Taric Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps Taric perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Taric is paired with Xin Zhao, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Xin Zhao doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played with Xin Zhao 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 alongside Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Taric plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Taric in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Taric that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Xin Zhao is a very typical teammate for Taric. By locking into the same team as Taric, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 52.4%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Taric and Xin Zhao that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Taric. That means Taric players don't need to be very careful when arranging Xin Zhao allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Taric players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Taric and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Taric in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Taric and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for Taric and Xin Zhao pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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