Illaoi vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Illaoi
based on 717 Illaoi vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Taric Counter Build
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Core Illaoi Items
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Guide to Countering Taric as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Taric
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several influential Illaoi vs. Taric matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences between the two. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Illaoi normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes more damage than Taric. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Taric
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Taric?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes a bad counter for Taric.
While Illaoi does have a lower winrate than Taric, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Illaoi into Taric.
Furthermore, Illaoi also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi 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 late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a terribly counter to Taric. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Illaoi in order to counter Taric during both the lane 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually picks up much more CS compared to Taric. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Illaoi versus Taric build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Taric than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Taric with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Taric as Illaoi, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Taric fights, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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