Gangplank vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Gangplank
based on 514 Gangplank vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gangplank vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Gangplank vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Gangplank against Taric
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
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.
Gangplank vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Gangplank in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several strategic Gangplank against Taric matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Gangplank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gangplank may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taric. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Gangplank usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Taric. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gangplank and Taric
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Who is Better, Gangplank or Taric?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gangplank usually fairs equally well when facing off against Taric, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Gangplank makes an ok counter to Taric.
While Gangplank does have a lower winrate than Taric, when on opposite teams, Gangplank also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gangplank into Taricas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gangplank also has only a small 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 Gangplank vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Gangplank is a somewhat poor counter for Taric. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gangplank against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gangplank in order to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gangplank most often accumulates much more CS relative to Taric. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Gangplank versus Taric build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Essence Reaver, and The Collector. When Gangplank combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Taric than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Gangplank had an average winrate of 49.6% battling Taric with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Taric as Gangplank, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Gangplank vs Taric matchups, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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