Kindred vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Kindred
based on 770 Kindred vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Taric
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Kindred in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some influential Kindred against Taric counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kindred normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they takes more damage than Taric. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kindred and Taric
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Who is Better, Kindred or Taric?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 45.8% win rate. Thus, Kindred makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Kindred does have a much lower win rate compared to Taric, when they face off with one another, Kindred also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kindred into Taric.
Moreover, Kindred has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kindred is a bad counter for Taric. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kindred against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kindred to counter Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Taric. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Kindred versus Taric build include Trinity Force, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better when facing Taric than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kindred had an average win rate of 45.8% battling Taric with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Taric as Kindred, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Kindred vs Taric battles, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Taric as Kindred are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.