Gragas vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Gragas
based on 730 Gragas vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Taric
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some important Gragas against Taric counter statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gragas 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.
Gragas normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Taric. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Taric
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Who is Better, Gragas or Taric?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when trying to fight Taric, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate than Taric, when on opposite teams, Gragas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gragas into Taric.
Furthermore, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, 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 isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gragas is a bad counter to Taric. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gragas 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually gets more CS relative to Taric. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Gragas versus Taric build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Taric than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 47.8% when countering Taric with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Taric as Gragas, Gragas players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Gragas vs Taric clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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