Aatrox vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Aatrox
based on 1,918 Aatrox vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aatrox vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Aatrox vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Aatrox
Tips for Playing as Aatrox against Taric
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Win Against Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Aatrox vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Aatrox in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some significant Aatrox versus Taric matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Aatrox normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aatrox and Taric
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Who is Better, Aatrox or Taric?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aatrox usually loses when taking on Taric, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Aatrox makes a bad counter for Taric.
While Aatrox does have a lower win rate than Taric, when facing one another, Aatrox also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Aatrox into Taric.
Additionally, Aatrox has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Aatrox is a garbage counter for Taric. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Aatrox against Taric.
Other Champion Matchups Against Aatrox
Additional Information for Aatrox Players
How We Calculated Our Aatrox vs Taric Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Aatrox to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox typically picks up much more CS relative to Taric. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Aatrox versus Taric build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Taric than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when playing against Taric with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Taric as Aatrox, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Aatrox vs Taric counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.7% win rate overall.
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