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.
Galio cannot traverse walls with Justice Punch.
Galio moves slower when he is charging Shield of Durand.
Hero's Entrance can be interrupted before Galio jumps into the air.
The stat comparisons provided here show some strategic Taric against Galio counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the two. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Galio’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Galio. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Taric usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Galio. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually fairs equally well when taking on Galio, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Taric makes an ok counter to Galio.
While Taric does have a higher win rate compared to Galio, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Taric into Galio.
Moreover, Taric also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Galio. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Galio matchups, Taric is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Taric is a decent counter for Galio. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Galio.
To truly master Taric in order to counter Galio during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric often accumulates a lot less CS as Galio. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Taric versus Galio build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Galio than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 50.1% when playing against Galio with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Galio as Taric, you should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Taric vs Galio LoL games, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% winrate overall.
If you need to see Taric x Galio tips and counter builds for a an individual player tier, please choose one from the selection menu displayed above. At first, the statistics and build suggestions given are computed using all games completed with both champions.