Graves vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Graves
based on 1,754 Graves vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Taric
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Graves in LoL
The stats provided here show several critical Graves against Taric matchup statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Graves typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Taric. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Taric
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Who is Better, Graves or Taric?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Taric, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Graves makes an ok counter to Taric.
While Graves does have a higher winrate than Taric, when facing one another, Graves also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Graves into Taric.
Additionally, Graves 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 trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Taric matchups, Graves is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Graves is a decent counter for Taric. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Graves against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Taric. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Graves versus Taric build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Graves used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Taric than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 50.3% battling Taric with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Taric as Graves, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Graves vs Taric LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% win rate overall.
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