Taric with Akali
How to Synergize Taric and Akali
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Taric Akali Synergy Summary
Best Taric vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Taric and Akali
Tips for Playing as Taric with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Taric Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Taric in LoL
The Taric Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Taric sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Akali helps Taric perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taric plays on the same team as Akali, he gets a little drop in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Akali doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akali.
Additionally, when Taric plays with Akali on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Akali does a decent job of covering Taric in team fights.
Synergies between Taric and Akali
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Is Taric better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top ally for Taric that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Akali is a very typical teammate for Taric. By playing on the same side as Taric, she improves their win rate by 0.3% to 52.5%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Taric and Akali that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Akali has a much greater difficulty compared to Taric. That means you should be cautious when lining up Akali comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Taric and Akali together, you will not be granting your team enough AD. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Akali ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to work well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Taric and Akali synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Akali than with most other common item sets. In fact, Taric had an average winrate of 52.5% helping carry Akali with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
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