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.
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some significant Taric against Vladimir counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between the two. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vladimir’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Vladimir. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Taric normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Vladimir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when facing off against Vladimir, with a 52.9% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes a good counter for Vladimir.
While Taric does have a higher winrate compared to Vladimir, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Vladimir.
Additionally, Taric has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vladimir. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Taric vs Vladimir 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 allies during team fights.
Taric is an above average counter to Vladimir. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taric against Vladimir.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric typically racks up a lot less CS compared to Vladimir. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Taric versus Vladimir build consist of Locket of the Iron Solari, Fimbulwinter, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Taric incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Vladimir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Taric had an average winrate of 52.9% when countering Vladimir with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Vladimir 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 sets we have analyed for Taric vs Vladimir counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Vladimir as Taric are presented for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.