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.
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The Taric Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Olaf helps Taric perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taric is an ally to Olaf, he sees a measurable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Olaf does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played with Olaf on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Olaf.
Additionally, when Taric plays with Olaf on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Olaf does a decent job of covering Taric in team fights.
There is no one best ally for Taric that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Olaf is a very typical teammate for Taric. By locking into the same team as Taric, he improves their win rate by 0.6% to 51.4%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Taric and Olaf that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Taric. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Olaf comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Taric and Olaf together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to work well with Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Taric and Olaf synergy build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Fimbulwinter, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Taric used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Olaf than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 51.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Olaf with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Taric players 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 runes players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
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