Taric with Gragas
How to Synergize Taric and Gragas
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Taric Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Taric and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Taric with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Taric Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Taric in LoL
The Taric Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gragas helps Taric perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taric plays on the same team as Gragas, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Gragas does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played together with Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gragas.
Moreover, when Taric plays with Gragas on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Gragas does a decent job of covering Taric during teamfights.
Synergies between Taric and Gragas
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Is Taric better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Taric that will always be his best synergy. However, Gragas is a very typical ally for Taric. By locking into the same team as Taric, he improves their win rate by 0.3% to 52.5%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Taric and Gragas that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Taric. That means you must be very careful when finding Gragas comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Taric players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by aligning Taric and Gragas together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 synergize with Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Taric and Gragas synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Gragas than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 52.5% helping carry Gragas with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you 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 rune sets players used for Taric and Gragas pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Gragas with Taric are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.