Taric vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Taric
based on 386 Taric vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Taric vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Taric in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several critical Taric vs. Kalista counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Taric normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Kalista
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Who is Better, Taric or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 58.3% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a fantastic counter to Kalista.
While Taric does have a much higher winrate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Kalista.
Moreover, Taric also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Kalista 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Taric is a great counter for Kalista. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Taric against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Taric to counter Kalista during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Kalista. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Taric versus Kalista build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Kalista than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 58.3% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Kalista as Taric, you should equip 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 players chose for Taric vs Kalista counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 58.3% winrate overall.
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