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.
Deny Vayne the opportunity to pin you against walls.
Vayne is fragile - turn the pressure up on her and she will be forced to play cautiously.
The stats shown on this page clarify some strategic Taric against Vayne counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vayne’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vayne. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Taric usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Vayne. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taric usually fairs equally well when playing against Vayne, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Taric makes an ok counter to Vayne.
While Taric does have a lower winrate than Vayne, when on opposite teams, Taric also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Taric into Vayne.
Moreover, Taric also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vayne. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Vayne matchups, Vayne is the better champion with a similar 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 somewhat poor counter for Vayne. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Vayne.
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Vayne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Vayne. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Taric versus Vayne build include Frozen Heart, Fimbulwinter, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Taric combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Vayne than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when countering Vayne with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Vayne as Taric, Taric players 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 Vayne fights, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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