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.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
The stats provided here highlight some significant Taric vs. Lee Sin matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between this pair of champions. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lee Sin. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Taric often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Lee Sin. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when trying to fight Lee Sin, with a 54.3% win rate. Thus, Taric makes a great counter for Lee Sin.
While Taric does have a much higher winrate than Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Taric also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Lee Sin.
Furthermore, Taric also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Lee Sin matchups, Taric is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Taric is a great counter for Lee Sin. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taric against Lee Sin.
If you would like to truly master Taric in order to counter Lee Sin during both the laning 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 listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Lee Sin. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Taric versus Lee Sin build consist of Fimbulwinter, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Lee Sin than with most other common item sets. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 54.3% when countering Lee Sin with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Lee Sin 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. Out of all the runes players picked for Taric vs Lee Sin clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.3% winrate overall.
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