The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
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.
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several vital Taric vs. Elise matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences between the two. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Elise. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Taric typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Elise. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taric usually fairs equally well when facing off against Elise, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Taric makes an ok counter to Elise.
While Taric does have a higher win rate than Elise, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Taric into Elise.
Additionally, Taric has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taric vs Elise matchups, Taric is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Taric is a decent counter to Elise. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Elise.
If you would like to truly master Taric in order to counter Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Elise. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Taric versus Elise build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Elise than with many other common builds. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing against Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Elise as Taric, Taric players should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Taric vs Elise counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
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