Brand vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Brand
based on 2,184 Brand vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Taric
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Brand in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several critical Brand vs. Taric matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Brand normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Taric. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Taric
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Who is Better, Brand or Taric?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when facing off against Taric, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a good counter for Taric.
While Brand does have a higher win rate than Taric, when they face off with one another, Brand also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Brand into Taric.
Furthermore, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Taric matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Brand is an above average counter to Taric. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often gets more CS as Taric. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Brand versus Taric build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Taric than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 52.8% battling Taric with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Taric as Brand, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Brand vs Taric fights, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Taric as Brand are presented for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.