Tahm Kench vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Tahm Kench
based on 883 Tahm Kench vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tahm Kench vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Tahm Kench vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Tahm Kench against Taric
Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
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.
Tahm Kench vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Tahm Kench in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some vital Tahm Kench versus Taric matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Tahm Kench’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tahm Kench may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Tahm Kench often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tahm Kench and Taric
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Who is Better, Tahm Kench or Taric?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tahm Kench usually loses when taking on Taric, with a 48.6% win rate. As a result, Tahm Kench makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Tahm Kench does have a lower win rate than Taric, when facing one another, Tahm Kench also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Tahm Kench into Taric.
Furthermore, Tahm Kench has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Tahm Kench 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 team members during team fights.
Tahm Kench is a somewhat poor counter for Taric. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Tahm Kench against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Tahm Kench to counter Taric during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tahm Kench most often racks up much more CS as Taric. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench versus Taric build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Taric than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when countering Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Taric as Tahm Kench, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Tahm Kench vs Taric counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
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