Zed vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Zed
based on 1,385 Zed vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Taric
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Win Against Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Zed vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Zed versus Taric matchup statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Zed normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Taric. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Taric
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Who is Better, Zed or Taric?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 44.8% win rate. As a result, Zed makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Zed does have a much lower win rate compared to Taric, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zed into Taricas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zed is a bad counter for Taric. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed often racks up much more CS relative to Taric. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Zed versus Taric build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Taric than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 44.8% when playing against Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Taric as Zed, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Zed vs Taric face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Taric as Zed are shown for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.