Aphelios vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Aphelios
based on 896 Aphelios vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Taric
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several strategic Aphelios versus Taric counter stats that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. For instance, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s ratio of NaN, showing that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taric. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Aphelios often has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Taric
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Taric?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when taking on Taric, with a 46.3% win rate. As a result, Aphelios makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Aphelios does have a lower win rate than Taric, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Aphelios into Taricas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aphelios has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aphelios 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.
Aphelios is a garbage counter to Taric. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aphelios against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to counter Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios often racks up much more CS relative to Taric. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Aphelios versus Taric build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Taric than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 46.3% battling Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Taric as Aphelios, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Aphelios vs Taric fights, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
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