Taric vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Taric
based on 516 Taric vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ziggs as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Ziggs
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 Ziggs
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Taric vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Taric in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several influential Taric versus Ziggs counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ziggs. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Taric often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Ziggs
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Who is Better, Taric or Ziggs?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taric usually wins when facing off against Ziggs, with a 54.5% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes a great counter to Ziggs.
While Taric does have a much higher win rate compared to Ziggs, when facing one another, Taric also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Ziggs.
Additionally, Taric also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taric vs Ziggs 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 team members during teamfights.
Taric is a great counter to Ziggs. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Taric against Ziggs.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Taric to counter Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric usually accumulates a lot less CS as Ziggs. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Taric versus Ziggs build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Ziggs than with many other common builds. In fact, Taric had an average winrate of 54.5% when playing against Ziggs with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Ziggs as Taric, Taric players should use 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 players picked for Taric vs Ziggs counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.5% win rate overall.
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