Nasus vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Nasus
based on 1,108 Nasus vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Taric
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some vital Nasus against Taric matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Taric..
Nasus often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Taric. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Taric
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Who is Better, Nasus or Taric?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually loses when trying to fight Taric, with a 45.5% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Nasus does have a much lower winrate compared to Taric, when facing one another, Nasus also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Nasus into Taric.
Furthermore, Nasus also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Nasus is a bad counter to Taric. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus often racks up much more CS as Taric. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nasus versus Taric build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Taric than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus had an average winrate of 45.5% when playing against Taric with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Taric as Nasus, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Nasus vs Taric fights, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.5% winrate overall.
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