Taric vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Taric
based on 780 Taric vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Gwen
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 Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Taric vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Taric in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several influential Taric vs. Gwen matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Gwen. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Taric usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Gwen. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Gwen
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Who is Better, Taric or Gwen?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when facing off against Gwen, with a 55.4% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a fantastic counter for Gwen.
While Taric does have a much higher winrate compared to Gwen, when facing one another, Taric also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Gwen.
Moreover, Taric also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Gwen matchups, Taric is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Taric is a great counter to Gwen. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Taric against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Gwen. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Taric versus Gwen build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Gwen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 55.4% when playing against Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Gwen 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. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Taric vs Gwen counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 55.4% winrate overall.
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