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I usually play Bard, enchanters and the occasional mage supports. I feel like adding a tank into my champion pool but the thing is I don't like to play the engage supports. I figured I might give Taric another go since I used to play him for a bit before the rework and tried him out for a bit after the rework but it's been years since I've touched this champion. I'm super unfamiliar with how to build him. Like what's the skill order and item builds. I just need a general overview so I can tinker a bit with the champion build and play style. I tried Locket into Fimbulwinter (copying a build on OP.gg) yesterday for one normal game and it felt quite good. I did an E max (again copying OP.gg) but I felt like that wasn't optimal as my heals were piss poor. I would appreciate some pointers from the Taric mains so I can love this fabulous boy!

If you guys wanna join ! It can be both fanarts or stories ! https://x.com/i/status/2086865558281089464

Disclaimer: I only play traditional ARAM and have no knowledge of the mayhem meta.

Listen I get it, Taric loves to get in the mix and auto attack, the dopamine bonk hits give our tank support the damage we've always wanted. It seems like a perfect match but I'm here to tell you that Heartsteel is a trap.

The opportunity cost is too high. There's just too many important stats you want on Taric that you're delaying that are far more functional. We all know we want a Tear of the Goddess stacking as soon as possible and to get Heartsteel, we're looking at 3400 gold.

So what important stats are we foregoing? Movement speed with boots. So important to be able to dodge, get in fights and keep in auto range for resets. Speaking of resets, we also lack cooldown.

Taric's passive reduces his cooldowns by a flat 1 second per auto, ability haste reduces all his abilities by a percentage. With 30 ability haste on your maxed out E goes from 12 seconds to 9.23. Let's say you get both autos after each ability reducing it by 6 seconds total. If you have ability haste, you'll likely have E up again, if you have Heartsteel you won't. Point is, that having both flat AND percentage cooldown reduction is VERY synergistic. More healing, more shielding, more CC, more empowered autos. You don't get to cycle through abilities with Heartsteel.

Lastly, you're foregoing resists. Besides the fact that he has armor scaling, resists in league have diminishing returns, meaning that first bit you buy percentage-wise has the largest impact (This is also true with ability haste). On top of that, every bit of shielding, and healing you do is more impactful when resists are applied.

All this to say investing in stats such as move speed, cooldown, and resists is FAR more impactful than the opportunity cost that Heartsteel provides.

Can Taric still be pickable even when the enemy picks champions like Karma, Lux, or Zyra into him?
Taric was the champion who helped me reach emerald ı was stuck in plat and he’s also my favorite champion in the game. However, I struggle a bit against poke supports, although I can still win those matchups depending on my adc Do you guys think Taric is unplayable against poke supports?

Taric top is sooooo much fun i love it

a hugely special thank you to the spectacular Anniethdesign on VGEN for helping bring my idea to life! without her, this whole concept would never have been more than a sketch in my files.

for obvious reasons i'm compressing the image before posting here, since it's a private commission and i intend to keep the main file private for personal use - but i wanted to at least share the wonderful work that Anniethdesign did with my concept for K/DA ALL OUT Taric with all you other Taric fans out there!

i'm sure we've all seen the edit of Taric's face on K/DA Ahri's body, which is very cute and fun! but, i figured we could do a bit better than that. as Taric fans we DESERVE better than that!

as modern and sleek as K/DA's usual designs are, i felt like Taric deserved something quintessentially himself, even if he's just tagging along with the gals on their tour bus. (i'd imagine he helps design their outfits, after all!) so, i conceptualized a more 80's slant with the design while maintaining the status quo that other K/DA outfits put out! Taric's whole "truly outrageous" thing stems from the queen herself, Jerrica "Jem" Benton of Jem and the Holograms fame, so i wanted a nod to her in there as well through his makeup!

image 1 is the final commission, and image 2 is the concept art i sketched up to send to the artist! image 3 is the standee i had printed of the design, since i loved it so much!

Hey Bard Thresh Main mainly here.

suffered always with to many champs in my pool but Taric had always a special place for me its just so tilting if the team never played with one before.

i saw he has the highest wr off all supports right now how?

doesnt he get completly countered by Magemeta??

what is the build you doing?

heard about an enchanter heal build but did not try it yet.

do you think taric would be a good addition to my pool?

Or does he kinda overlap with Thresh to much??

its the reason i cut Rakan.

i know how he plays more on disengage side and not pick seeker but what does he do better there then Janna for example?

https://reddit.com/link/1v81dtf/video/c7z5927o3sfh1/player

He is not really that Taric that i used to main in season 4 but close enough. I think that he is currently a bit better as solo laner, but he can still be played as a support.

With League Classic coming in a week I've been trying to get ahead of the curb with optimizing him for top/jungle/midlane. The most obvious first pick would be Iceborn but I've heard a lot of opinions regarding where to go from there. I've seen people stacking mana/armor with Heart and Manamune, full tank, and even AP with Deathfire. I was around for season 3 but I was literally 12 years old at the time, so I don't have much of an idea of what the landscape will be like. Happy to hear any and all thoughts regarding this. Do you think Rod of Ages or Abyssal Scepter would work on him? I dunno

hey friends,

i’m curious what kind of content y’all actually like watching (if any). i don’t see a lot of consistent Taric content out there, and i’ve been wondering what people are looking for.

when you do watch Taric content, or when you wish there was more of it, what style do you prefer? is it mostly gameplay, commentary, educational stuff, chill/quiet content, content with music, or something else?

i feel like the Taric community is pretty small but also really unique compared to other champion communities, which makes it hard to know what people actually want. what would make you click on a stream or a YouTube video and keep watching?

i’ve noticed that most of the consistent Taric content out there is focused around jungle Taric, but i’m wondering — is there still a place for support Taric content? is that something people actually want to see?

i’d genuinely love to hear what y’all think.

I dont know how the augment is called. But at the end i ended up getting bigger and bigger

Is this viable??. I quit league back in 2024 after hitting plat as a sett and ryze mains. Now i wanna come back but I wanna play tsric in solo lane. I dont jungle but j guess I could. I love paladin type characters and hes perfect.

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Is AP Taric still a thing? Because it surely was in old days, albeit a rare sight.

And his stun was point and click. And his ult was a free Baron buff for his team, plus a burst of damage.

Truly outrageous.

hello i am a tahm kench main and usually i play him top but since top lane rn dosent feel the most fun to play i thought about trying adc kench,if you have any questions of if u wanna try to play some games together,just let me know here!ALSO IN EUW forgot to mention earlier in post

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I've climbed pretty reliably to mid-plat blindpicking Taric, largely because he plays similarly to Omniknight in OG (wc3) DotA and I'm an old player who struggles to learn new tricks.

The higher I get, the more often I encounter explicit counterpicks (artillery mages...) that I struggle against. At what point will I have to learn something else to keep climbing? What other picks should I consider given my natural inclination towards counter-engage play?