Taric Mini-Rework: shifting from passive to active power

Indorfin·5/30/2015, 8:57:07 PM·3 votes·566 views

I like Taric's playstyle, but his ult summarizes his kit very well; sort of useful and not very fun to use. I don't think anybody would disagree that there's some room for improvement, and a few changes could very quickly update his kit by making his power less passive.

Passive - Gemcraft: My only change is that using Gemcraft on a target that is Dazzled (explained below) will apply a slow, and using Gemcraft on a target that has had their armor reduced by Shatter will extend the debuff by 1 second.

Q - Imbue: Instead of healing, Taric now shields himself and an ally. Taric can self-cast Imbue to give himself a larger shield and increased movement speed towards enemy champions while the shield survives.

W - Shatter: The 12% of Taric's bonus armor is no longer given to Taric and allies as a passive aura, but instead to those that have recently been healed or shielded by Imbue, Dazzle or Radiance. Taric can also gain the bonus armor by using his Gemcraft on-hit.

E - Dazzle: In addition to being stunned, the targeted enemy is also Dazzled for several seconds, causing Taric's allies to heal-over-time by auto-attacking them. Leveling Dazzle increases the slow applied by Gemcraft.

R - Radiance: Other than the AoE damage, I'm removing everything from this spell. For 10 seconds, all nearby allies heal for 1% of Taric's bonus health a second. Nearby allies' auto-attacks and single-target spells now deal Gemcraft's bonus damage.

4 Comments

Lucentile5/30/2015, 8:59:34 PM1 votes

Part of Taric's R's power is that he can use it to fast push objectives after a team fight for the duration/if his team makes a good pick; I'm not sure we want to take that away.

Also, I think leaving the heal a heal is better for his laning, since it lets him sustain instead of just shield.

khorney5/30/2015, 9:11:51 PM1 votes

His ult needs to either A get rid of the penalty that allies recievie , B a stat debuff to enemies which would be more useful in a way or C a cc move like a knockup or a knock back similar to janna

FistOfSharkiesha5/31/2015, 12:12:21 AM1 votes

What does this accomplish exactly? Right now he is clunky and kitable but if he can constantly get his abilities off he's strong. Your rework changes nothing.