Taric with Kassadin
How to Synergize Taric and Kassadin
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Taric Kassadin Synergy Summary
Best Taric vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Taric and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Taric with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Taric Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Taric in LoL
The Taric Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kassadin helps Taric perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Taric is an ally to Kassadin, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Kassadin does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played together with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Additionally, when Taric plays with Kassadin on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kassadin does a poor job of protecting Taric in team fights.
Synergies between Taric and Kassadin
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Is Taric better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Taric that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Kassadin is a very typical teammate for Taric. By locking into the same team as Taric, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 52.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Taric and Kassadin that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Kassadin has a much greater difficulty compared to Taric. That means you must be careful when finding Kassadin teammates to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Taric players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Taric and Kassadin together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kassadin teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 synergize with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Taric and Kassadin synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Kassadin than with many other common item sets. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 52.9% helping carry Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Taric players should equip 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 chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Kassadin with Taric are presented for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.