Sylas vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Sylas
based on 1,298 Sylas vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Taric
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Sylas in LoL
The stats shown here show several strategic Sylas vs. Taric counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Taric. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Sylas normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Taric. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Taric
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Who is Better, Sylas or Taric?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sylas usually loses when trying to fight Taric, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Sylas makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Sylas does have a lower win rate than Taric, when on opposite teams, Sylas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Sylas into Taric.
Additionally, Sylas also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Sylas vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Sylas is a trash counter to Taric. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Sylas against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas in order to counter Taric during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas often gets much more CS relative to Taric. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Sylas versus Taric build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Taric than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Taric with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Taric as Sylas, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Sylas vs Taric LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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