Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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 Viktor Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Viktor sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Taric. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Taric helps Viktor perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viktor is paired with Taric, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Taric does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played with Taric 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 with Taric.
Additionally, when Viktor plays with Taric on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Taric does a decent job of covering Viktor during team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Viktor that will always be his top synergy. However, Taric is a very typical ally for Viktor. By playing on the same side as Viktor, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 50.0%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Viktor and Taric that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Taric has a much lower diffuclty than Viktor. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Taric comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, Viktor players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Viktor and Taric together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Taric teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Viktor in order to work well with Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Viktor and Taric synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Taric than with many other common builds. In fact, Viktor had an average winrate of 50.0% helping carry Taric with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Viktor and Taric pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Taric with Viktor are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.