Orianna vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Orianna
based on 542 Orianna vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Taric
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Orianna in LoL
The stats provided here feature some valuable Orianna against Taric counter stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Orianna typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Taric. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Orianna and Taric
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Who is Better, Orianna or Taric?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Orianna usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 44.1% win rate. As a result, Orianna makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Orianna does have a much lower win rate than Taric, when they face off with one another, Orianna also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Orianna into Taricas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Orianna has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Orianna is a bad counter to Taric. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Orianna against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Orianna to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna most often racks up much more CS relative to Taric. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Orianna versus Taric build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Taric than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Orianna had an average win rate of 44.1% battling Taric with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Taric as Orianna, Orianna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Orianna vs Taric fights, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.1% winrate overall.
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