Zoe vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Zoe
based on 451 Zoe vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Taric Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Taric as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Taric
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Zoe in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several important Zoe against Taric matchup stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Taric. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Zoe often has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Taric. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Taric
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Zoe or Taric?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when playing against Taric, with a 46.1% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a bad counter for Taric.
While Zoe does have a lower win rate than Taric, when on opposite teams, Zoe also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Zoe into Taric.
Furthermore, Zoe has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zoe 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 allies during team fights.
Zoe is a garbage counter for Taric. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Taric.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
Additional Information for Zoe Players
How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Taric Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zoe in order to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe usually picks up much more CS relative to Taric. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Taric build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Taric than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Zoe had an average win rate of 46.1% when countering Taric with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Taric as Zoe, Zoe players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zoe vs Taric matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.1% win rate overall.
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