Taric with Gwen
How to Synergize Taric and Gwen
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Taric Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Taric and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Taric with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Taric Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Taric in LoL
The Taric Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gwen helps Taric perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Taric is paired with Gwen, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Gwen does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played with Gwen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gwen.
Additionally, when Taric plays with Gwen on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Taric in teamfights.
Synergies between Taric and Gwen
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Is Taric better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no one best synergy for Taric that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Gwen is a very typical ally for Taric. By playing on the same side as Taric, she increases their win rate by 0.2% to 52.4%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Taric and Gwen that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Gwen has a greater difficulty than Taric. That means Taric players need to be very careful when finding Gwen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Taric players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Taric and Gwen together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Gwen ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to pair well with Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Taric and Gwen synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Gwen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 52.4% helping carry Gwen with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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