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[8.22] Diamond/Master Tear Korean Taric - Bizzleberry

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Runes:

Resolve

Guardian

Bone Plating

Chrysalis

Revitalize

Inspiration

Magical Footwear

Biscuit Delivery

Spells:

Ignite

Flash

Items

Starting items

First buy

Midgame

Ability Order

Taric Passive Ability

Introduction

Hi, my name is Bizzleberry and I am a longtime League of Legends player, playing since before Season 1. Over the years I have achieved high ranking in solo queue, from Platinum in Season 1 (the highest at the time) to Challenger multiple times throughout the years. I used to stream in season 4-5 and stopped playing League for a year during season 6. I have now returned and am currently in Diamond on EUW as a support main. You can catch me on my stream or my Youtube channel. I try to explain what I am doing in most situations; feel free to ask any questions on stream or leave a comment on the guide!

Why Taric?

has a pretty unique skill kit in which three of his abilities are used not just on himself but whoever he has applied to (within range). This enables him to protect, heal and CC from different areas of a team fight.

Taric Advantages

Able to spam heal with on CC'd targets, Epic Monsters or Towers, allowing your team to shake off minor poke and refresh your team by auto-attacking with .

Placing on a tank allows you to the front line, an assassin to the back line or your ADC to provide some extra protection for the back line.

A well timed ult can change a team fight, especially if your team consists of a lot of squishies.

Just a beautiful man to look at?

Taric Disadvantages

Healing with is near impossible to use more than a couple of times due to early mana costs with lack of mana regen.

Being CC'd Early may disrupt the use of and may lead to one of your carries dying early in a fight.

is predictable and easy to dodge without the use of .

Teammates may not use correctly.

Runes

Resolve

provides you and your lane partner with a little extra sustain and movement speed. This helps in both running away from an enemy jungler and helping engage with . Remember, just healing or shielding a target will be enough to give them the buff if they get hit, you don't just have to stand next to them!

provides you with extra tankiness when you decide to engage with in the laning phase. Currently very strong in lane.

Provides you with extra hp during early stages of the laning phase, once again provides you with more sustain when you decide to engage and can have the potential to save you if you get ganked.

goes well with your heals, shields (both skills and items) and . A must have rune.

Inspiration

is the best option now since on is very hard to stack. Much needed to help provide mana and sustain in laning phase.

is a solid option and will save you 300g in the medium-short term. However it is also viable to take to provide lower CD on your spells and items.

Summoners

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is standard, you can use it to + at the last second to get a surprise stun in.

is usually taken on botlane to ensure your side secure a kill in the laning phase, which is the most snowbally part of the game. Recently got buffed further, making even weaker during laning phase.

Abilities

Using , will separate you from being an average player to an high level player. Getting used to weaving in auto attacks with spells is not only good for DPS but also will help get your basic spells off cooldown faster, and every auto hit with on will give you 1 charge of your Q . This is the reason we build as you will be chugging through mana while spamming all of your spells. This is particularly useful on objectives, such as turrets, Dragon and Baron as you will be able to spam heal multiple teammates and giving them all buff.

heal is relatively small, however due to you will be able to spam this multiple times throughout the game. It will not only place the heal on yourself but however else that has and the targets around them. Try to avoid using in lane as a sustain until you have tear as it will cost a lot of mana.

gives you and your bastion target bonus armor. Any other spell you use will also be cast on your target, increasing heal, stun and aoe invulnerability potential. Bare in mind, it has a limited tether range and if the target is out of range or dies spells will no longer be cast on the target. However if you die and the target is still alive, spells that you have pre-cast will still follow through, such as and .

is a decent form of lane sustain for both you and your ally, due to its decent shield.

a slow casting stun that can be dodged relatively easily. A tip is to pre-cast yourself with stun and then flash into the enemy, ensuring they cannot dodge the spell. This ability is very strong when combined with your target for multiple stun potential.

After a long delay you and your target will be invulnerable for a short period of time, along with anyone near you or your target. One of the best team fight ultimates in the game, however due to its slow windup cast, requires you to anticipate a fight as you will more than likely need to cast it just before the fight breaks out, which gives the enemy a chance to quickly disengage. Everyone will be immune to damage but NOT crowd control.

Items

Relic Shield

Basic support starting item and provides your ADC with a tiny amount of health regen throughout the laning phase. Do your best to last hit cannon minions due to the recent changes dramatically increasing the amount of gold cannon minions now give.

Upgrade to Targon's Brace during the laning phase for more gold and health regen for midgame. Being able to upgrade to Targon's Brace allows you to complete the 500 gold quest quicker and gives you an extra ward to place down.

Tear of the Goddess

provides you with unlimited spell use in the mid-game. Allows you to constantly spam heals at Baron, Drake and bashing towers. Very popular in the high-elo KR meta right now. Buy after your Targon's Brace.

Ardent Censer

works well as your first core item as it synergies with your and well. Provides sustain and extra magic damage on auto attacks. Particularly useful if you are an AD heavy team and have a jungler such as or and/or have a hyper carry like .

Redemption

is currently one of the best support items in the game. It is a soft counter to poke comps, but is usually purchased early because of the versatility of the item. Provides a massive heal AoE heal, at a very long distance and can be used while dead. It can be a massive game changer when used in the centre of a teamfight, or can actually be used to kill off a straggler that is running away on 2% hp as it does do a tiny amount of damage! Needs to be purchased first or second on , unless against a very heavy magic comp, then could be better as you will be able to survive some burst.

Locket of the Iron Solari

is an OK item to pick up if against mixed damage dealers, and scales with your maximum hp. However, remember that taking this will reduce your own personal tankiness but, could help your squishier teammates in a close call.

Zeke's Convergence

can be a viable option against mixed damage dealers and also gives 10% CDR. Buy this item if you feel you are tanky enough to be able to stay in close range often, due to the massive aoe slow aura this item gives you.

Ninja Tabi

provides a lot of tankyness, especially as you will be dancing between your front and back line a lot. Very effective against lots of auto attack damage teams.

Take if they have atleast one or two hard cc stun, as this is your greatest weakness and help get out of those sticky situations.

Frozen Heart

decent in the late game against any auto attack heavy champions. Provides a huge chunk of cooldown reduction and requires nothing of the user, so takes something off your mind.

Randuin's Omen

Provides more self protection than , but no addition cooldown reduction. Can stack will with against full attack damage teams. The on use AoE solo is OK.

Laning Phase

has a tough laning phase, more so since was nerfed. Sustain as much as you can with your ADC and work with him with your to set up jungle ganks if required. Utilise wait 0.5s then for an instant stun or your jungler to allow for a more comfortable hit.

Your aim is to have enough gold for so you can easily heal sustain your team for the mid-game.

Midgame & Teamfights

You will need to be constantly with a another player to fully utilise . If the enemy has nobody that can jump your ADC, it is sometimes better to instead your front line as it will be easier for your team to jump on with .

Be always aware of being flanked or surprise engaged, as you will need to constantly evaluate when to use your ultimate .

Ensure you are constantly resetting your spells with auto-hits with your passive , particularly at objectives that allow you to stand still and auto-hit. In team fights, sometimes you might choose to bash on the tank just pull out a quicker. Constantly evaluate when to use what spells, and you will not be surprised by anything!