Taric vs Karthus
How to Beat Karthus as Taric
based on 477 Taric vs Karthus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Karthus Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karthus as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Karthus
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 Karthus
Karthus can cast spells for a short duration after he is killed. Move away from his corpse to be safe.
Make sure you always have enough health to survive Requiem, even if you have to go back to the base more frequently to heal.
Taric vs Karthus Counter Stats
How to Counter Karthus with Taric in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some significant Taric versus Karthus counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Karthus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Karthus. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Taric normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Karthus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Karthus
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Who is Better, Taric or Karthus?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when taking on Karthus, with a 58.5% win rate. As a result, Taric makes a fantastic counter to Karthus.
While Taric does have a much higher win rate compared to Karthus, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Karthus.
Moreover, Taric also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karthus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Karthus 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Taric is a great counter to Karthus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Karthus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric usually accumulates less CS compared to Karthus. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Taric versus Karthus build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Karthus than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 58.5% when playing against Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Karthus as Taric, Taric players should equip the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Taric vs Karthus fights, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 58.5% winrate overall.
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