Poor Man Taric Guide

Introduction
Hello and welcome to my Poor Man Taric guide, this guide is only for support Taric, and focuses on getting your bottom lane Carry Farmed/Fed while keeping your team alive by maximising Map control and Team Fighting Items. This guide will include Summoner spells, Runes, Masteries, Skills, Item builds and Tactics for Early, Mid and Late game with Ward spots for each part.

Summoner Spells
I normally take Flash and Clairvoyance

(Optional)
I take flash to excape, flash stunning, chasing and flash healing team mates.

(Must take)
CV is a must for this build since it is based around support.

Other Summoner Spells

(Optional)
Ghost is a good replacement for Flash, since you can still chase/run away with it, it is good but i prefer Flash for stunning.

(Optional)
Exhaust is only good to get if your team has none of them or their team is mostly AD.

(Optional)
Ignite is just like Exhaust, it is only good to get if you have no Ignites on your team or their champs are mostly Regen/life stealing champs.

Runes

Masteries

Skills

Passive - GemCraft
Taric loves to socket magical gems into all of his weapons, resulting in his melee attacks replenishing his mana for 7.5% of damage dealt.

Q - Imbue
Taric brings forth earthen energy to heal a nearby ally and himself for 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 (+90% of ability power). If Taric heals only himself, the heal will be 40% more effective. Melee attacks on enemies decrease this spell's cooldown by 2 seconds per hit.

Cooldown 20 / 19 / 18 / 17 / 16seconds
Cost 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130mana
Range 625

W - Shatter
Passive: Taric's gains 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 bonus armor and provides an aura that increases the armor of himself and nearby allies by 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30.

Active: Taric deals 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 (+50% of ability power) magic damage to nearby enemies and decreases their armor by 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 for 4 seconds. The aura portion of his passive is not in effect during the cooldown.

Cooldown 16seconds
Cost 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90mana
Range 400

E - Dazzle
Taric fires a sphere of prismatic light at an enemy, dealing 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 - 80 / 160 / 240 / 320 / 400 (+100% of ability power) magic damage (lower damage the further the target is), and stunning them for 1 - 2 seconds (higher stun the further the target is).

Cooldown 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10seconds
Cost 95mana
Range 650

R - Radiance
Toggle: Taric emits brilliant light, healing himself for 30 / 40 / 50 (+20% of ability power) a second and increasing his and nearby allies' attack damage by 30 / 60 / 90 (half effect for nearby allied champions). The cost to sustain Radiance increases by 4 / 7 / 10 each second.

Cooldown 20seconds
Cost 20mana
Range 550

Skill Orders

Defensive Order - Maxing Heal first.
E-Q-Q-W-Q-R-Q-W-Q-W-R-W-W-E-E-R-E-E

Agressive Order - Maxing Shatter first.
E-Q-W-W-W-R-W-Q-W-Q-R-Q-Q-E-E-E-R-E

Overview on Items builds

Starting Items
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Early Game


Mid Game


Late Game
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If you need AP

Tactics

Early Game
Play to the way your lane mate does, so if he is just farming try to keep the enemys away from him, if he is going for kills try to pull of early stun shatter combos and if he having trouble or just is retarded try to just keep him alive by healing him when you can.
Ward Spots Red if winning, Blue If losing and Green in it's anyones game.


Mid Game
In mid game i have a rule that everytime i go back i buy 6wards or 2 + an orcale this helps to keep Map control. The way i play in Mid game is to my enemys, so if they are doing good but lets say they are split pushing you try and get a gank on their strongest carry to try shut them down or if they are trying to teamfight just hold a lane and delay while your allies farm up.
Ward Spots Red if winning, Blue If losing and Green in it's anyones game.

Late Game
I play late game by warding the whole map and keeping control over it to maximise ganking and minimize the chance of getting ganked, this also helps with buff stealing/Baron/Dragon and alot of the time can turn games and win them.
Ward Spots Red if winning, Blue If losing and Green in it's anyones game.


Champions Taric counters easy
Taric works very well versing champs that have long CD's like Alister and Morgana and champions that relie on CC to kill your carrys like WW or Malz.

Champions that counter Taric
Taric gets destroyed by any tanky dps like Xin and Rene.

Champions which work well with Taric in lane
Taric works very well with Ashe, Vayne, Corki and Trist because of their MS, AD and overall great early games.

Conclusion
With this build Taric feels worthless when playing him due to the lack of items but warding wins games and alot of people still dont realize that...

YOU FUCKING NOOB USELESS GUIDE -1

You're Useless!

IT'S DONE ANTI!

Nice guide. Can I grammar nazi it?

tl:dr buy gold gen and wards and

Why the FUCK would my LAST item on a support taric be a rabadons. That is a shit teir last item unless its bought early and therefore not a last item or used to top off an ap heavy build. WHEN YOU DO SHIT LIKE OHK GUYS IM BUILDING REGEN TANK HMMM OK RABADONS CAUSE I AM AFTER ALL A SPELL CASTER RIGHT? i die inside.

I will still try.

You sir are retarded and yes you can edit my bad english...

Well everything except rabadons is good.

-1

Hat make taric good heal, no?
If no, no matter. Rabadon still make good hat.

What the fuck is the point of 1 move speed quint, FUCK

^ Yes.

It helps!

I actual do that

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EDIT THIS GUIDE IS ALSO GOOD FOR LEONA

Phildo wrote:

What the fuck is the point of 1 move speed quint, FUCK

I think it's to have a slight edge over other supports. Given that most supports get x/x/21, almost always speccing in the 3% Movement Speed mastery, the 1 quint could potentially make/break a team fight.

Blitz wrote:

Phildo wrote:

What the fuck is the point of 1 move speed quint, FUCK

I think it's to have a slight edge over other supports. Given that most supports get x/x/21, almost always speccing in the 3% Movement Speed mastery, the 1 quint could potentially make/break a team fight.

I just like the little Edge