Taric vs Seraphine Counter Pick

Stage Presence makes every third basic spell cast twice, and casting near allies grants Seraphine bonus magic damage and range on her next attack. Doubling a High Note or a Beat Drop from 525 range, against an opponent who has to reach 150 to do anything at all, is the mechanical core of a matchup reading 47.7% for Taric over 732 games on patch 16.13.1, computed as Hard.

Taric’s durability is not the issue: 645 base health, 40 base armour, 2,328 health and 113.1 armour at level 18, against 570, 26, 2,185 and 97.4. Bastion even exports part of that to an ally. The issue is contact. Beat Drop impairs movement in a line, delaying the walk-up that Bravado needs before Starlight’s Touch charges accumulate, and Surround Sound shields and hastes nearby allies, then heals them as well when she is already shielded, undoing chip damage as fast as he applies it. Encore charms and refreshes its range with every champion it passes through, which punishes the grouping a Cosmic Radiance play tends to create. High Note is plain area damage, and doubled by the passive it clears a wave and pushes him off it in one cast. Her damage is mixed, so neither of his resistances answers it cleanly, and 28 base magic resistance is the softer half. The double-cast timing is described on the Seraphine champion page.