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.
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
The Taric Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Taric perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taric plays on the same team as Alistar, he observes a massive increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Alistar supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played together with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Alistar.
Additionally, when Taric plays with Alistar on the same side, he often receives much more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Alistar does a poor job of protecting Taric during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Taric that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Alistar is a decent ally for Taric. By locking into the same team as Taric, he improves their win rate by 2.8% to 55.0%. This proves that there is a good strategic relationship between Taric and Alistar that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Alistar has a much greater difficulty compared to Taric. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Alistar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Taric players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Taric and Alistar together, you probably will not be granting your side enough AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to synergize with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Taric and Alistar synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Taric incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Alistar than with most other common builds. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 55.0% helping carry Alistar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Taric players should equip the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 55.0% winrate overall.
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