Samira vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Samira
based on 1,943 Samira vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Samira vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Samira vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Samira
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.
Samira vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Samira in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Samira versus Taric counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s ratio of NaN, showing that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Taric. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Samira often has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Taric. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Samira and Taric
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Who is Better, Samira or Taric?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 44.7% win rate. Therefore, Samira makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Samira does have a much lower winrate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Samira also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Samira into Taric.
Moreover, Samira 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Samira 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Samira is a terribly counter to Taric. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Samira against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Samira 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira typically accumulates much more CS relative to Taric. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Samira versus Taric build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Samira included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Taric than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 44.7% battling Taric with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Taric as Samira, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Samira vs Taric clashes, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.7% winrate overall.
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