Azir vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Azir
based on 691 Azir vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Taric
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Azir against Taric matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taric. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Azir normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Taric. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Taric
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Who is Better, Azir or Taric?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually wins when facing off against Taric, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a good counter to Taric.
While Azir does have a higher winrate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Taricas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Taric matchups, Azir is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Azir is a decent counter to Taric. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir typically accumulates much more CS compared to Taric. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Azir versus Taric build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Azir used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Taric than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 51.7% battling Taric with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Taric as Azir, Azir players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Azir vs Taric matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.7% win rate overall.
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