Support · 210 games · EUW

Taric

Support · 98% of games

Strongest when games end at 20–25 minutes (61%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+46 gold).

Win rate: 54.8%; ±6.7 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: S; #4 of 53
Pick rate: 1.9%; ban 0.2%
Games: 210; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Taric support wins 54.8% of 210 ranked games in EUW, rank 4 of 53 support champions (tier S). Most players finish Locket of the Iron Solari first, at about 13:00.

The build at a glance

What most Taric players run

Each item: the most common choice, following the ones before it.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity 10:12 · 30% of games

Item 1

Locket of the Iron Solari 13:12 · 67% · 133 games

Item 2

Winter's Approach 20:39 · 49% · 48 games

Item 3

Knight's Vow 25:54 · 65% · 13 games

Runes

Glacial Augment · Inspiration + Resolve 13% of games · 44% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 94% of games · 56% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 35% of games · 47% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Dazzle first 66% of games · 51% wins Skill orders →

When Taric wins

Best when games end at 20–25′

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′57% wins39% of games · 81

Lasts 25′ or more54% wins59% of games · 123

Lanes

Watch out for Soraka, Nami

Hard Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Taric games

First Baron: 86% against 31%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 31% 86% +55

First tower 33% 74% +41

First dragon 42% 67% +25

Rift Herald 43% 68% +25

First blood 43% 67% +24

First Voidgrubs 46% 63% +17

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Taric plays

More damage to towers, fewer solo kills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average support. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More damage to towers2292 against 1350 · +70%

Fewer solo kills a game0.1 against 0.2 · −57%

Fewer control wards a game3.22 against 5.01 · −36%

Fewer multikills a game0.06 against 0.09 · −33%

Less damage a minute254 against 368 · −31%

About average: gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~12:54

Item 2done ~21:06

Item 3done ~26:36

Item 4done ~35:12

Most common full builds

Plated Steelcaps › Locket of the Iron Solari › Knight's Vow › Winter's Approach 53.8%13 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Locket of the Iron Solari › Winter's Approach › Knight's Vow 76.9%13 games

Locket of the Iron Solari › Plated Steelcaps › Winter's Approach › Jak'Sho, The Protean 100.0%4 games

Knight's Vow › Plated Steelcaps › Locket of the Iron Solari › Protoplasm Harness 100.0%3 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Locket of the Iron Solari › Winter's Approach › Spirit Visage 33.3%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Locket of the Iron Solari 60%5

Mikael's Blessing 60%5

Winter's Approach 59%34

Knight's Vow 50%22

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Health Potion + Health Potion55.8%197

Health Potion + Health Potion + Control Ward66.7%3

Health Potion + Health Potion + Tear of the Goddess33.3%3

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~10:1248.4%64

Plated Steelcaps ~14:2463.2%57

Boots of Swiftness ~11:1859.0%39

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite47.3%74

Flash + Heal58.6%70

Exhaust + Flash59.1%66

Skills

Max

W51.4%138

Max

Q70.5%44

Start

W57.7%104

Start

Q53.0%66

Hard lanes

Watch out for Soraka, Nami

Easy lanes

Good into Nautilus, Thresh, Janna

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 5 of 6, wins 4 of them

Expected: what Taric's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (21)

Milio 67% · 9

Rakan 75% · 8

Braum 75% · 8

Leona 57% · 7

Bard 33% · 6

Yuumi 80% · 5

Lux 60% · 5

Senna 60% · 5

Renata Glasc 20% · 5

Pyke 0% · 4

Rell 75% · 4

Morgana 50% · 4

Poppy 50% · 4

Sona 0% · 4

Zilean 75% · 4

Blitzcrank 0% · 3

Elise 67% · 3

Seraphine 67% · 3

Galio 33% · 3

Karma 67% · 3

Swain 33% · 3

Taric vs Lulu · 21 games · Fair sample

Taric does better than expected here

57%winsexpected 54%

+80gold at 15′average +46

+2.7minions at 10′ahead or behind

48%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.14 a game

Gold lead against Lulu Taric's average lead

Against Lulu, Taric is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 52% of games and wins 64% of those. When behind, Taric wins 50%.

Ahead at 15′64% wins11 games

Behind at 15′50% wins10 games

Full Taric vs Lulu page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Taric games: Jhin

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Kha'Zix67% · exp. 54% +1315 games

Enemy mid Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble

Jhin47% · exp. 54% −719 games

Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies more than most supports

Before 14 minutes Taric dies 3.0 times a game (average 2.6). 46% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 45% for the average support. 8% are fair 1-v-1s.

3.0deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.6)

46%involve the enemy junglerabout average (45%)

92%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (89%)

22%with no teammate nearless than average (27%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Taric dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

Ganks: 34% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 44% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 47% in their half of bot lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average support

What kills Taric

Kind of death

Taric Average

Gank 46% (avg 45%)Collapse 46% (avg 44%)1-v-1 8% (avg 11%)

Who gets the kill

Taric Average

Bot laner 44% (avg 41%)Jungler 24% (avg 24%)Support 14% (avg 15%)Mid laner 15% (avg 16%)Top laner 3% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00–7:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Taric Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Taric; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Taric wins fights

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in the bot-side river

Before 14 minutes: 0.4 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.1 in the bot-side river. Overall 0.3 kills per death.

Their half of bot lane 0.4 K/D 99 / 223

Your half of bot lane 0.2 K/D 54 / 243

The bot-side river 0.1 K/D 9 / 63

Their jungle 0.3 K/D 9 / 26

Your jungle 0.3 K/D 7 / 22

Their half of mid 0.7 K/D 10 / 15

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Taric wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsWorth knowingNear 44% of their team's dragon takes (average support 48%). The team wins 69% when Taric is there and 74% when not.

Leaving laneWorth knowingFirst shows up in mid lane around 12:00 (average 10:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 44%; for Taric it is 59% against 45%.

Taric

What most Taric players run

Best when games end at 20–25′

Watch out for Soraka, Nami

First Baron: 86% against 31%

More damage to towers, fewer solo kills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

Watch out for Soraka, Nami

Good into Nautilus, Thresh, Janna

Ahead at 15 against 5 of 6, wins 4 of them

Taric does better than expected here

Taric does better than expected here

Taric does better than expected here

Taric does better than expected here

Taric does worse than expected here

Taric does worse than expected here

Enemies that cost Taric games: Jhin

Teammates that change Taric's games

Dies more than most supports

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Taric

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00–7:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in the bot-side river

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Where fights happen