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Why ancient coin is better than relic sheild on Taric

I Zerak I·7/16/2016, 10:09:16 PM·1 votes·2,247 views

As a level 6 Taric main it hurts to see people going with relic shield that doesnt really give Taric anything big other than some health a heal and a shield (or some wards) both he doesnt need since he already has one of each in his kit that are fairly powerful. Ancient coin on the other hand allows him to use his abilities without running out of mana to soon (with the help of mana Regen runes) which is why his early game is so fragile to poke and extended zoning offensively and defensively this build allows him to keep up even if his adc has 20 fps in both situations.Talisman on the other hand gives him much needed armor, a burst of movement speed (40% AOE) allowing him to do engages and force flashes really easily while bringing his team with him, and extra gold to build health items like Ruby sight stone which reduces cool downs on items by 20% and gives wards and needed health for only 1600 gold attainable with the extra gold from ancient coin into talisman, the talisman also gives Alot of cdr which synergies with Taric's passive thus his kit, which is all about counter engaging with his ult (or making plays) and peeling non stop and with the movement speed buffs on talisman, engaging. Using the extra gold from building talisman allows Taric to build ALOT of tankiness so he can peel up close and personal.

With this build It's Alot about late game and punishing over poorly positioned peeps early and late as well as hard zoning from the bushes. But most importantly being unstoppable peel late game because killing you will take too much effort and spells allowing you to do as you please. While your team backs you and crush those who dare try to pick you off. Your peel is also strong enough to 1v1 any squishy that doesn't build some defence. And even then can still chunk and cc really hard while always threatening to spin a team fight around with your ult, shields and heals. So in a nut shell the build path makes you stronger at all phases of the game and let's you not get blown up by the enemy team.

4 Comments

Oleandervine7/16/2016, 10:17:02 PM1 votes

He needs the HP more as a tank. His core item is Frozen Heart, and he also utilizes Zz'Rot really well in that it provides him both Armor and MR - both of these items have no HP, and to be an efficient tank, you need HP. Plus, Taric also scales HP into his Q, and while the speed boost is nice from the Talisman, always having back up shields is so much better at avoiding death, especially since you can shield yourself or someone you're not bound to without breaking the bond or using mana. Also, of note, the Coin line doesn't give any more gold than the Relic line or the Edge line, it just delivers it differently. You get kill gold and gold over time with Relic Shield, and tribute gold and gold over time with the Edge, but you only get passive gold when someone else kills minions through the Coin, which evens out with the other two items in the long run. Another reason the Coin isn't so hot on tanks is that it's a very passive way to get gold, and the tanky supports need to be in the fray, crowd controlling people in order to their job, not sitting back like Soraka or Janna, plus, the Coin is terrible on delivering gold if you roam, because you won't get gold if you're not in a lane.

zlumpy7/16/2016, 10:19:11 PM1 votes

There are already a ton of cdr items in game.

I like relic shield because I tank better with it. The armor on coin is negated really quickly by most dmg dealers and does nothing vs magic so health is the better route.

Plenty of other really good buys on taric have armor. Health is tougher to come by on good items.

Just because he has 1 shield doesn't mean he doesn't benefit from more shields. I mean if you stack W fotm ult and a locket on someone odds are they really aren't going to die and most likely kill that fed carry that just jumped them.

I'm not dissing coin it has it's uses but saying relic is bad is just completely wrong.

I Zerak I7/17/2016, 12:54:40 AM1 votes

You guys are right I did assume that ancient coin gave more gold than relic sheild though it's not entirely wrong. Taric early game is very squishy and the health scaling on his q is 1.5% bonus health which won't give you much during laning phase and just building health on him will only let him last a slap or 2 longer. While building armor through talisman with lvl 2 bastion makes much more effective health being that I don't need as much to tank and in my experiences during an even lane I can take a heavy beating and still make it out. I prefer ancient coin on Taric also because I can get coin even if I'm zoned while with relic you have to have your buddy, and getting every cannon is a tricky task. Especially on squishy early game taric who has no mana regen to heal.

My runes are 2 quints of scaling health and 1 of armor , 9 yellow armor runes, 9 red mana Regen runes, 5 straight MR runes and 4 scaling MR runes. All of them being teir 3.

PS. Ult to save your back line?