Taric vs Rakan Counter Pick

Rakan takes this one, and the margin is narrow but consistent: 311 games on patch 16.13.1 leave Taric at 47.9%, computed as Hard. Both are short-range supports built around hard engage, both rate near the easier end for execution — Taric 3, Rakan 5 — and both are fighting over the same window in a fight.

Mobility is where it breaks. Grand Entrance dashes and knocks up on arrival, Battle Dance flies to an allied champion with a shield attached and can be recast free for a short time, and The Quickness charms everything he touches while he moves faster. Dazzle is a delayed beam that has to be predicted against a champion who repositions twice in the same fight, and Taric’s 150 attack range gives him nothing to threaten with from outside it. Rakan’s 300 range is not long, but it is double.

Statistically Taric is the sturdier of the two: 645 base health to 610, 40 base armour to 30, and 2,328 at level 18 to 2,293, with Bastion adding armour to whichever ally carries it. Rakan’s damage is magic, which meets Taric’s weakest defensive stat at 28. Cosmic Radiance remains the trump card against a committed ultimate, provided its delay starts before the charm rather than after. See the Rakan champion page.