Kassadin vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Kassadin
based on 494 Kassadin vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Taric Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Kassadin Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Taric as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Taric
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Kassadin in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several valuable Kassadin versus Taric counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Kassadin often has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Taric. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kassadin and Taric
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Kassadin or Taric?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually loses when taking on Taric, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Kassadin makes a bad counter for Taric.
While Kassadin does have a lower winrate than Taric, when on opposite teams, Kassadin also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kassadin into Taricas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kassadin also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kassadin is a garbage counter to Taric. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kassadin against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin usually racks up much more CS relative to Taric. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Kassadin versus Taric build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Taric than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 48.0% battling Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Taric as Kassadin, Kassadin players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kassadin vs Taric matchups, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
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