Taric vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Taric
based on 700 Taric vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Alistar
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 Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Taric vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Taric in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some influential Taric against Alistar matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar..
Taric normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Alistar
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Who is Better, Taric or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taric usually wins when taking on Alistar, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a great counter for Alistar.
While Taric does have a higher win rate than Alistar, when on opposite teams, Taric also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Alistar.
Furthermore, Taric also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taric vs Alistar 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 Alistar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taric against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Taric in order to counter Alistar 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 mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Alistar. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Taric versus Alistar build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Alistar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 53.1% when playing against Alistar with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Alistar as Taric, you 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 runes we have analyed for Taric vs Alistar matchups, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.1% winrate overall.
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