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.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
The Taric Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Taric sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Amumu helps Taric perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Taric tries to synergize with Amumu, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may signal that Amumu helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played with Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Amumu.
Moreover, when Taric plays with Amumu on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Amumu does a decent job of protecting Taric in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Taric that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Amumu is a very typical teammate for Taric. By being on the same side as Taric, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 52.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Taric and Amumu that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Amumu has a lower difficulty than Taric. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Amumu comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by aligning Taric and Amumu together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Amumu ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to synergize with Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Taric and Amumu synergy build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Frozen Heart, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Taric combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Amumu than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Taric had an average winrate of 52.9% when playing alongside Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Presence of Mind, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
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