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 Zeri 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, Zeri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Taric. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Taric helps Zeri perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zeri tries to synergize with Taric, they sees a noticable increase in their full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Taric provides cover for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zeri is played alongside 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.
Moreover, when Zeri plays with Taric on the same side, they on average takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Taric does a poor job of covering Zeri in teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Zeri that will 100% of the time be their top teammate. Yet, overall, Taric is a fantastic ally for Zeri. By being on the same side as Zeri, he improves their win rate by 3.8% to 50.0%. This proves that there is an important synergy between Zeri and Taric that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Taric has a much lower diffuclty than Zeri. That means Zeri players don't need to be careful when lining up Taric teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Zeri and Taric together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Taric teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Zeri in order to pair well with Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Zeri and Taric synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Runaan's Hurricane, and Titanic Hydra. When Zeri included at least these three finished items in their build, they did a lot better when fighting alongside Taric than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zeri had an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Taric with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Taric with Zeri are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.