Kog'Maw vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Kog'Maw
based on 284 Kog'Maw vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Taric Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Kog'Maw Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Taric as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Taric
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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.
Kog'Maw vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several strategic Kog'Maw against Taric counter stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kog'Maw typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Taric. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Taric
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Taric?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kog'Maw usually fairs equally well when taking on Taric, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Kog'Maw makes an ok counter for Taric.
While Kog'Maw does have a higher winrate than Taric, when on opposite teams, Kog'Maw also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kog'Maw into Taric.
Moreover, Kog'Maw also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kog'Maw is a decent counter for Taric. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kog'Maw against Taric.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kog'Maw
Additional Information for Kog'Maw Players
How We Calculated Our Kog'Maw vs Taric Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw typically gets much more CS as Taric. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Kog'Maw versus Taric build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Taric than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Taric as Kog'Maw, Kog'Maw players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kog'Maw vs Taric fights, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Taric as Kog'Maw are shown for all ranked divisions. To filter the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.