Taric Mini-Rework: shifting from passive to active power

Indorfin··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

Lucentile1 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.

khorney1 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

FistOfSharkiesha1 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.

Indorfin1 votes

He now has a movement speed boost from Imbue to help catch enemies with his stun, and he can now follow that stun with a slow. This rework also moves away from the passive stat auras from Shatter and Radiance, which are not all that fun, and instead makes Shatter's bonus armor dependent upon your spells, and gives Radiance more noticeable effects that allies can work around, instead of "stand close to Taric for stats".

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