Akshan vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Akshan
based on 668 Akshan vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Taric
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Akshan vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some critical Akshan versus Taric counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Taric. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Akshan often has a much larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Taric. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Taric
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Who is Better, Akshan or Taric?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when taking on Taric, with a 43.3% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Akshan does have a much lower win rate than Taric, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Akshan into Taric.
Additionally, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Akshan is a trash counter to Taric. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan in order to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often racks up much more CS compared to Taric. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Akshan versus Taric build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan bought at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better versus Taric than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 43.3% battling Taric with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Taric as Akshan, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Akshan vs Taric counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 43.3% win rate overall.
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