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How to Win Irelia vs Taric Counter MatchupIrelia is in the b tier of champions

Irelia vs Taric

How to Beat Taric as Irelia in LoLIrelia is in the s tier of champions
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How to Beat Taric as Irelia

based on 963 Irelia vs Taric matchups
Win Rate
43.5 %
K/D/A
1.71
Pick Rate
0.9 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

At MOBA Champion, we summarize millions of recently ranked League rounds each week. Within our dataset, Irelia did battle with Taric in 963 rounds. With so many games with Irelia vs Taric provides us a lot of confidence in our capability to produce useful data and a solid build to obliterate your opposition. This pairing is relatively rare. Irelia encounters Taric in only 0.9% of her rounds.

Irelia vs Taric Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Irelia does a awful job of beating Taric. Typically, she wins a lowly 43.5% of games the champs battle each other in. In Irelia versus Taric matches, Irelia’s team is 0.1% less probable to get first blood. This implies that she most likely won't be able to get first blood against Taric.

Best Irelia vs Taric Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
PickaxeVampiric Scepter

Core Irelia Items

~22 Mins
Experimental HexplateBlade of The Ruined KingSundered Sky

Optional Items

Sterak's GageTerminusWit's EndDeath's Dance

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Irelia to level upq
>
Second ability for Irelia to level upw
>
Last skill for Irelia to max oute

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceArmor
Irelia's passive ability p
Irelia's q ability q
Irelia's w ability w
Irelia's e ability e
Irelia's ultimate ability r
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Q
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E
3
W
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Q
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Guide to Countering Taric as Irelia

Tips for Playing as Irelia against Taric

Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.

Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.

Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.

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.

Irelia vs Taric Counter Stats

Irelia Image
Win Rate
43.5 %
VS
Win Rate
56.5 %
Taric Image
6.6
< Kills >
2
6.8
< Deaths >
5.4
5
< Assists >
14.9
1.53
< Killing Sprees >
0.38
198
< Minions Killed >
36
0.07
< Dragons Killed >
0.18
0.41
< Inhibitors >
0.59
14,977
< Physical Damage >
2,124
5,815
< Magic Damage >
4,710
736
< True Damage >
787
21,529
< Damage Dealt >
7,621
29,556
< Damage Taken >
22,152
12,195
< Gold Earned >
8,542
2.1
< Towers >
2.34
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.04
9,910
< Total Healing >
11,621
14,152
< Experience >
10,564
15
< Vision Score >
47
8
< Wards Placed >
20
110
< Time Dealing CC >
392

How to Counter Taric with Irelia in LoL

The stats provided here emphasize some vital Irelia versus Taric matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.

Irelia typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes more damage than Taric. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.

Differences between Irelia and Taric

Damage Types Compared

Irelia
Taric
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Irelia
Taric

Who is Better, Irelia or Taric?

Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually loses when trying to fight Taric, with a 43.5% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a bad counter to Taric.

While Irelia does have a much lower win rate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Irelia also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Irelia into Taric.

Furthermore, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.

Irelia is a bad counter for Taric. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Taric.

Additional Information for Irelia Players

How We Calculated Our Irelia vs Taric Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Taric as Irelia, we analyzed 963 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Taric as Irelia comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia in order to counter Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Irelia usually picks up much more CS relative to Taric. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.

The best items to have in your Irelia versus Taric build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Taric than with most other typical builds. In fact, Irelia had an average win rate of 43.5% when playing against Taric with this build.

To have the best probability of annihilating Taric as Irelia, Irelia players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Irelia vs Taric matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.5% win rate overall.

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