Taric vs Wukong
How to Beat Wukong as Taric
based on 418 Taric vs Wukong matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Wukong Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Wukong as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Wukong
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 Wukong
Wukong becomes tougher to kill when surrounded by his enemies. Try to isolate him to gain an advantage.
Wukong will often use Decoy after Nimbus Strike. Try delaying your abilities by a short amount of time to ensure that you're hitting the real Wukong.
Taric vs Wukong Counter Stats
How to Counter Wukong with Taric in LoL
The stats provided here feature several critical Taric versus Wukong matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Wukong’s ratio of NaN, showing that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Wukong. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Taric normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Wukong. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Wukong
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Who is Better, Taric or Wukong?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taric usually wins when playing against Wukong, with a 54.5% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a great counter to Wukong.
While Taric does have a much higher win rate than Wukong, when facing one another, Taric also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Wukong.
Moreover, Taric has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Wukong. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Wukong matchups, Taric is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Taric is a great counter to Wukong. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taric against Wukong.
Other Champion Matchups Against Taric
Additional Information for Taric Players
How We Calculated Our Taric vs Wukong Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Taric to counter Wukong during both the early game 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 here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric on average picks up less CS relative to Wukong. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Taric versus Wukong build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Wukong than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 54.5% battling Wukong with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Wukong 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 builds that we analyzed for Taric vs Wukong clashes, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.5% win rate overall.
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