Pretty much the core build. Try to get these by your first or second back for maximum gold generation and efficiency.


Around this point you'll be doing a lot more roaming, warding, and de-warding. Use your Face of the mountain active to protect key members and use them as bait with your heal in team fights. Remember to keep using your stacks to execute minions as often as you can.


These will be your main defensive items to stack armor for everything that is Shatter. Frozen Heart and Randuin's Omen fuel all of Taric's scalings and solidify him in his niche role of countering full AD teams. Use your auras and Omen's active to shut down AD champions that are coming for your carries. Banshee's Veil is a final item, or you can get it sooner if AP is more threatening to you than AD.


Iceborn Gauntlet synergizes so well with Taric's new kit, it's insane. The only reason it isn't in the core build is because it's expensive and I prefer to have utility items as core. This item will allow Taric to deal significant damage with his Gemcraft combos. Thornmail is a cheap and massive armor boost that feeds into your armor ratios further and provides reflection damage to attackers. If you need a lot of armor fast and wanna deal some extra damage too, look no further. Sunfire Aegis is more for a fed Taric. It provides beastly defensive stats early on and the magical damage over time is very helpful to Taric because he is very cooldown reliant to deal damage. Be aware that this item is best used when rushed and is far less useful later on.


You can opt for the Talisman of ascension line over face of the mountain if you prefer the team wide speed boost, which helps your team capitalize on your Dazzle. Locket of the Iron Solari provides one of the best team fighting actives in the game and helps your team shrug off heavy AP teams. Mikael's Blessing is an amazing optional item on Taric as it fixes a lot of his mana issues. The active is also another heal, as well as a cleanse for him to save his allies. Burst healing with this item and Imbue can be super clutch.

Basic Attacks

Taric's passive takes a bit of finesse to use now. Weaving auto attacks in between every ability use will allow you to rapidly chain Dazzle and Shatter, if you have enough CDR. This will burn your mana easily, however, so be careful to hit the right enemies and heal the right allies with each spell cast.

Item Actives

Taric's core build is filled to the brim with item actives. Each one for specific purposes. You may find yourself confused with so many hot keys, especially when using a normal mouse. Highly suggest investing in a multi-button mouse to easily use your item actives. Not just for Taric but for supporting in general, as they tend to use the most active items.

Dazzle

Dazzle is a very powerful stun, however it has some issues. You should never walk towards enemies with the intent of stunning them, unless you are simply zoning them. Not only is this predictable, but it gives them ample time to react and get out of harms way before the stun hits them. The projectile for this ability is very slow and even if it hits, it won't stun targets like Graves, or Ezreal until they reach the end of their respective dash and blink abilities.

Radiance

Do not be afraid to use Radiance for things like pushing turrets, or clearing minion waves. The cool down is very short and it will likely be up again by the time you'll need it. Multiple ranged AD characters ( Jayce, Jinx, Nidalee) greatly benefit from this ability when pushing towers or securing other objectives.