Taric vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Taric
based on 2,246 Taric vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Akali
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Taric vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Taric in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several significant Taric versus Akali matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences between the two. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s ratio of NaN, showing that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Taric normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Akali. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Akali
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Who is Better, Taric or Akali?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when taking on Akali, with a 54.3% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a great counter to Akali.
While Taric does have a much higher winrate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Taric also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Akali.
Moreover, Taric also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Akali matchups, Taric is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Taric is a great counter to Akali. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Taric against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Akali during both the laning 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 presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Akali. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Taric versus Akali build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Taric used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Akali than with most other common item sets. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 54.3% when countering Akali with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Akali as Taric, Taric players should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Taric vs Akali counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.3% win rate overall.
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