Taric vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Taric
based on 1,684 Taric vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Taric vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Taric in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several valuable Taric against Kayn counter stats that may help you figure out the differences between these two champions. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayn’s ratio of NaN, showing that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayn. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Taric typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Kayn. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Kayn
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Who is Better, Taric or Kayn?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when facing off against Kayn, with a 54.6% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes a great counter to Kayn.
While Taric does have a much higher winrate than Kayn, when facing one another, Taric also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Kayn.
Furthermore, Taric has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayn. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Kayn 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Taric is a great counter to Kayn. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to counter Kayn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Kayn. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Taric versus Kayn build include Knight's Vow, Fimbulwinter, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Taric incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Kayn than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 54.6% when countering Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Kayn as Taric, Taric players should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Taric vs Kayn counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.6% winrate overall.
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