Kalista vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Kalista
based on 386 Kalista vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Taric Counter Build
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Core Kalista Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Countering Taric as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Taric
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Kalista in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Kalista against Taric matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the two. Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kalista usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Taric. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kalista and Taric
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Who is Better, Kalista or Taric?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 41.7% win rate. As a result, Kalista makes a bad counter to Taric.
While Kalista does have a much lower win rate compared to Taric, when they face off with one another, Kalista also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kalista into Taricas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kalista has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kalista 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Kalista is a garbage counter to Taric. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kalista against Taric.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kalista
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista on average accumulates much more CS relative to Taric. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kalista versus Taric build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Taric than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 41.7% when countering Taric with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Taric as Kalista, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kalista vs Taric matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 41.7% win rate overall.
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