Taric vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Taric
based on 1,754 Taric vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Taric vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Taric in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some significant Taric against Graves counter stats that may help you grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Graves. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Taric normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Graves. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Graves
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Who is Better, Taric or Graves?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taric usually fairs equally well when taking on Graves, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Taric makes an ok counter for Graves.
While Taric does have a lower winrate than Graves, when facing one another, Taric also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Taric into Graves.
Moreover, Taric also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taric vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Taric is a somewhat poor counter for Graves. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taric against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric on average gets a similar amount of CS as Graves. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Taric versus Graves build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Graves than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 49.7% battling Graves with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Graves as Taric, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Taric vs Graves matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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