Taric vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Taric
based on 514 Taric vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Taric Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Gangplank
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 Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Taric vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Taric in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several critical Taric versus Gangplank counter stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gangplank’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Gangplank. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Taric often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Gangplank. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Gangplank
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Taric or Gangplank?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taric usually fairs equally well when facing off against Gangplank, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes an ok counter for Gangplank.
While Taric does have a higher win rate than Gangplank, when facing one another, Taric also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Taric into Gangplank.
Moreover, Taric also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gangplank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taric vs Gangplank matchups, Taric is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Taric is a decent counter for Gangplank. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Taric against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Gangplank 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 tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric most often picks up a lot less CS as Gangplank. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Taric versus Gangplank build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Gangplank than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Gangplank with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Gangplank 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Taric vs Gangplank clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Gangplank as Taric are displayed for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.