Imo taric is the worst champion in the game, but he's what a tank should be.

His Goatliness·10/22/2015, 2:11:57 AM·5 votes·849 views

Idk why everyone is ok with tanks doing damage that's on-par, if not better than, carries. Taric has one of the worst kits damagewise (probably the worst) but he does what a tank is meant to do. Get in the way, and provide survivability with cc. And then there's champs like Leona. Grab ignite and you're damn near guaranteed first blood because she'll easily outdamage her carry. I don't feel that I should have to wait until lategame to outdamage my team's tank. This isn't WoW, tanks don't need to do a lot of damage early on to hold Aggro.

Note: it's not just league that is an offender of this mentality. Every Moba I've played has this problem.

16 Comments

YumaS2Astral10/22/2015, 2:18:07 AM3 votes

Leona can only outdamage a carry during the early game, and that's only because she has incredibly good base stats and good base damage.

However she will do close to no damage late game, any ADC can just drain tank Leona, and even her massive tankyness will not save her from being outtraded by a common mage or assassin.

That's assuming you are going with support Leona, of course. A tank should have just enough damage to allow it to win trades with a squishy champion that can't kite him. That's what, on my opinion, a tank should have. Anymore than that probably means that the tank is broken.

HTM Neru10/22/2015, 2:20:20 AM1 votes

SiRcHeZ plays Taric top in diamond elo games and carries hard with it. Watch his stream sometime, its fun!

Catastrop10/22/2015, 2:20:36 AM1 votes

Taric is actually quite bursty though.....maybe it's just me.

Hayaishi210/22/2015, 2:52:54 AM1 votes

if someone can solo carries that is taric so idk what your talking about

khorney10/22/2015, 3:23:55 AM1 votes

Taric top is better then support his moves are filled with penalties

Ralanr10/22/2015, 3:35:59 AM1 votes

Wow tanks? Doing a ton of damage? Did I miss something cause I hated wow tanking due to a more aggro gaining abilities than actual damage.

Marthian10/22/2015, 4:47:17 AM1 votes

that's your opinion, but Taric is far from the worst champion. Good lane sustain, a click stun, armor aura, he's a defensive support.

DrNova10/22/2015, 5:00:43 AM1 votes

Clearly you've never played to plane taric. Little slow start, but you be amazed at the sustained burst he can dish out between his passive and ice born gauntlet alone.

Mael bro10/22/2015, 2:29:42 PM1 votes

Worst champ in the game? How about Kassadin Lucian Sejuani

Gusicles10/22/2015, 2:41:51 PM1 votes

Hello,

Some points I'd like to make are:

Taric is far from being the worst champion. He's niche in most situations, but when he shines he's legitimately outrageous.
The problem nowadays is that there are too many "fighters" that benefit from going full tank, so they basically screw over "true" tanks. Taric being an inversion to this, as he scales with armor (tankiness). Explained below.
Tanks have naturally high damage early, because their late game damage and scaling is poor.
I would scarcely consider Taric to be a tank. True tanks have hard peel and crowd control. Taric has a simple stun, sustain, and damage. Taric is a fighter.

Reconsider!

Jamaree10/22/2015, 2:16:31 AM1 votes

It boils down to this, either you boggle down a tank with so much CC you have to focus them, give them the damage so they have to be focused, or end up with things like Taric, pick your poison.

OlafRagnarson10/24/2015, 6:57:52 AM1 votes

I'm not okay with the amount of damage tanks generally do. Its retarded and riot has not sense in this matter.