Lucian with Taric
How to Synergize Lucian and Taric
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Lucian Taric Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Taric
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Taric
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Advice to Understand How Taric Will Play
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.
Lucian Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lucian sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Taric. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Taric helps Lucian perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian plays on the same team as Taric, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Taric provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played together with Taric on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Taric. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Taric.
Moreover, when Lucian plays with Taric on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Taric does a decent job of protecting Lucian in teamfights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Taric?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Lucian that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Taric is a superb companion for Lucian. By locking into the same side as Lucian, he increases their win rate by 5.1% to 53.9%. This shows that there is a strong synergy between Lucian and Taric that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Taric has a much lower diffuclty than Lucian. That means Lucian players don't need to be very careful when finding Taric allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Lucian players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Lucian and Taric together, you will not be providing your side very much magic damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Taric ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Lucian in order to pair well with Taric during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Lucian and Taric synergy build include Essence Reaver, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Taric than with many other common builds. In fact, Lucian had an average winrate of 53.9% when playing alongside Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Taric with Lucian are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.