Taric vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Taric
based on 1,011 Taric vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Taric vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Taric in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several important Taric against Bard matchup stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bard..
Taric often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Bard
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Who is Better, Taric or Bard?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taric usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Taric makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Taric does have a lower winrate than Bard, when facing one another, Taric also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Taric into Bard.
Moreover, Taric has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Taric is a trash counter for Bard. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Taric
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Taric in order to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Bard. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, 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, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Taric versus Bard build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating Bard as Taric, Taric players should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Taric vs Bard clashes, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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