Taric vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Taric
based on 1,533 Taric vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Taric vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Taric in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several vital Taric vs. Malphite matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malphite’s ratio of NaN, showing that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Malphite. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Taric often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Malphite. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Malphite
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Who is Better, Taric or Malphite?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taric usually wins when trying to fight Malphite, with a 53.0% win rate. As a result, Taric makes a good counter to Malphite.
While Taric does have a higher winrate than Malphite, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Malphite.
Furthermore, Taric also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Malphite matchups, Taric is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Taric is an above average counter for Malphite. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Taric against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to counter Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric on average racks up a lot less CS as Malphite. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Taric versus Malphite build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Malphite than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when playing against Malphite with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Malphite as Taric, you 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 combinations we have analyed for Taric vs Malphite LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.0% win rate overall.
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