Taric vs Syndra
How to Beat Syndra as Taric
based on 848 Taric vs Syndra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Syndra Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Syndra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Syndra as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Syndra
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 Syndra
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
Taric vs Syndra Counter Stats
How to Counter Syndra with Taric in LoL
The stats provided here show several strategic Taric vs. Syndra matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Syndra’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Syndra. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Taric typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Syndra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Syndra
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Who is Better, Taric or Syndra?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when playing against Syndra, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a good counter for Syndra.
While Taric does have a higher winrate than Syndra, when facing one another, Taric also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Syndra.
Additionally, Taric has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Syndra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Syndra 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 teammates during teamfights.
Taric is an above average counter for Syndra. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taric against Syndra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Taric to counter Syndra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric on average racks up a lot less CS compared to Syndra. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Taric versus Syndra build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Syndra than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Taric had an average winrate of 52.2% when countering Syndra with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Syndra 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 combinations that we analyzed for Taric vs Syndra fights, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Syndra as Taric are displayed for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.