Taric with Garen
How to Synergize Taric and Garen
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Taric Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Taric and Garen
Tips for Playing as Taric with Garen
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 Understand How Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Taric Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Taric in LoL
The Taric Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Taric perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Taric tries to synergize with Garen, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Garen does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played with Garen 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 alongside Garen.
Additionally, when Taric plays with Garen on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Garen does a poor job of covering Taric during teamfights.
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Is Taric better when played alongside Garen?
There is no perfect ally for Taric that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Garen is a not very good ally for Taric. By playing on the same side as Taric, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Taric and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Taric. That means Taric players must be very careful when enlisting Garen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Taric players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Taric and Garen together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Taric in order to pair well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Taric and Garen synergy build include Fimbulwinter, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Taric players should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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