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Riot, Can Taric get a faster auto attack animation or an increase on his base attack speed?

Tarics Anus·3/9/2015, 8:48:54 PM·4 votes·668 views

Hello, As a Taric Player I'm here to share my thoughts on something that I find to really hurt Taric. Of course, I know he's in need of a full kit rework however, I think there is a small tweak that can be done that I think can improve the feel and gameplay of Taric FOR NOW, Until the full rework is finished. This may be minor and I don't think it would be very difficult for Riot to implement this change but I've been discussing with friends and thinking that Taric's passive is completely useless as he hits VERY SLOW which is the fault of either his attack animation speed or his overall base attack speed. I think Riot should consider tweaking his attack animation speed as he hits really slow currently and after each spell cast, he must auto attack in order to make use of his passive for the bonus magic damage, Similar to Thresh. Taric commonly does this after every Dazzle Cast+combined with Shatter. Is it possible that you guys can tweak his auto attacks a bit to be a bit faster? I'm not exactly sure what Riot would have to do but I assume it'll be a faster attack animation or an overall base attack speed buff. What are your thoughts on this as I find this to be extremely annoying when playing Taric. Taric

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test account3/10/2015, 12:36:57 AM2 votes

His attack speed is currently one of the slowest in the game at level 18. Notably, at level 18 it's 0.84. This is slightly faster than Syndra's at 0.838, but it's slower than Rumble (at 0.847), Skarner (at 0.848), and Swain/Fiddlesticks/Karthus/Zyra/Ryze (at 0.849). His attack speed at level 1 is on par with or higher than most of these dudes.

Notably, the only supports that he's got a faster level 18 attack speed than are Lux, Blitzcrank, Nautilus, Morgana, and Annie. Some of those may not be "real" supports depending on your definition.

Without taking runes, masteries, items or skillbased steroids into account, his attack speed at level 18 is actually higher than Sivir (0.837), Tristana (0.823), Jinx (0.731), and Gnar (0.678).

He's definitely not the slowest out there, but he's certainly not very fast either. He's also faster than Sion, Zac, and Singed. Which puts him pretty high up there as having a decent AS as far as tanky melee guys go. I'm mostly just providing this information to give a basis for things, not to argue about whether I agree with you or not.

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DJ Di03/9/2015, 8:58:53 PM1 votes

Jungle Taric approves.

SanKakU3/9/2015, 9:17:42 PM1 votes

He should get a minor attack speed per level buff if this is truly a problem. He basically gets about 2 percent attack speed every level up, instead he could get like 2.5 or 3. Have you tried Randuin's Omen on him? The slow helps keep enemies from running while you do your combo on them.