Does Taric fit anywhere?
Greetings. As the title suggests, I'm curious if Taric works at all? He seems to have been completely neutered. Is there a way to build him to be relevant? Can he even support anymore?
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He's part of the older class of champions that has most of their power hidden away.
Sure, his stun is nice, Imbue's heal isn't too bad, etc.
But the passives he gets and can use are broken as hell.
First: Armor! Armor for everyone! Wait, I hit W. Armor for no one. Especially not the enemy team.
His ult provides basically a full item's worth of stats to his entire team. For the entire fight. On a low CD.
His passive is actually incredibly strong: Spell-punch-Spell-punch-Spell-punch oh look my abilities are off CD again! Rinse and repeat. It's pretty common to see multiple Taric stuns in teamfights, and shatters, and imbues.
He's not meta at the moment, which is sad since I love Taric, but he's by no means underpowered.
I like building him as a full tank since his heal scales with his HP and his W and passive scales with his armor.
Can survive most late game teamfights with those items if used with 6-24-0 masteries. Second wind in the defensive tree is also very good since it'll save your butt in teamfights where you'd normally be dead but come out alive with that little bit of 1 HP. Second wind adds onto what Spirit visage does,so it buffs all the heals and regen further. Taric gets abit over 4K HP with those items and enough MR and armor for late game. Sunfire cape could be replaced with BV if more MR is needed.
Taric belongs in the mid lane with other Junglers. While in top lane he is as versitle as an ad carry. Remember to always call forest or nexus guard because those are tarics secondary weak points for his strongest early game.
Taric was not selected to be this years 15% viable pool. Try again next year. :) #Riot"Balance"
He would do incredibly well against a full AD comp, but that's about it. He is an older champion, so he was designed differently and doesn't mesh well with the current meta. He can't heal or CC or peel or whatever you need him to do as well as other current top tier supports. He can be played, but in most situations you can pick someone else, Nami or Braum, and you will most likely be doing the same but better.
I miss old Taric with 1.0 AP ratios....AP Taric was a blast. Add back the CDR on hit for his heal again and it's even more fun to get some attack speed and just be a healing monster.
sigh
He's still a pretty good support, just not what they are looking for at higher levels of play where they can trust their teammates and cooperate.
Taric is still a well rounded support with good auras, a heal, a CC, and a lot of durability. He scales really well into late game where he provides substantial aura bonuses to his team, is good at killing people diving his ADC, and who is capable of 1v1'ing a lot of champions with an Iceborn Gauntlet and support/tank items (Boots, Targon's Shield, Sightstone, Iceborn Gauntlet, Locket of the Iron Solari, Randuin's Omen,).
He's also a pretty strong pick top lane against melee AD casters. He's a lot more situational in the current top meta, but if you pick him into the right opponent there is very little they can actually do to stop you between your damage, durability, and sustain.
You guys have actually been very helpful, thank you. I want to try him out a couple times and you have actually given me builds to look at. What should my skill order be though? I see the merit in maxing both e and q
Taric is best played for the late game. He's a good support if you know how to run a sustain lane. (relic shield, heal and Q)
Late game build.
If the enemy team picks a heavy ad team taric can be really good esp with a ramus jungle.
He's good against those full ad teams as far as I know. The ones with the tank supports that can't dish out a lot of magic damage.
he's a decent support or toplaner
he has a lot of hidden power
mostly in his w and r auras
he can give somewhere around 17k worth of stats (but not everyone can use ap,ad and armour)
he's excellent with a comp which can use all his stats
or vs a full ad comp (much like malphite or rammus)