Welcome to the in-depth Taric Guide looking at every support way you can play Taric

I started playing Taric last year about around when his rework was on the PBE.
After his rework was when I really got into playing him, Right now I have 2 accounts 1 in NA and another in TR (You can see my up to date Mastery Points in NA and TR)
I am sitting at about a total of 200K with both accounts combined.

Pros

+ Long ranged poke + Brush reveal + AoE slow + Healing reduction + Attack speed steroid + Quick movement speed

Taric Pros

Cons

- Poor late-game - Susceptible to CC - AP ratios - Cast time on ult - Interuptable ult - Not a crit-based champion

Taric Cons

P

Bravado (P): This is the bread and butter of Taric. After every spell Taric's next 2 Auto-Attacks gain increased attack speed,do additional magic damage based on level and 15% of your bonus armor and reduce the cooldown of basic abilities (Q,W,E) by one second per bravado auto attack (Keep in mind that the reduction of cooldown gets lesser with the more CDR you build, also the additional magic damage does not apply to towers but the attack speed helps).

Q

Starlight's Touch (P): This AoE heal allows Taric to be able to have high sustain in lane while still being a tank, it works on a 3 charge system, each charge scales with 20% AP and 1.5% bonus health. Casting the ability uses all charges, the more charges there are the more the heal is (Both base and scaling)

W

Bastion (W): Bastion is Taric's most complex basic abilty and very unique. Passively Taric and his linked ally 10-20% more of Taric's armor. Actively Taric links with an ally and shields them and Taric for 8-12% of the person who is being shielded's max health, after linking Taric can cast his Q,E and R from his linked ally

E

Dazzle (E): The only damaging ability and cc that Taric has. The stun channels for 1 second, during this second you can move, (you can also project a second stun from a Bastioned ally) the duration of the stun scales with levels put in E from 1 to 1.5 seconds, the damage has a 50% AP scaling and a 30% bonus armor scaling

R

Cosmic Radiance (R): The reason that Taric's late game is so strong. Taric casts an AoE invulnerability spell, after a delay of 2.5 seconds Taric's ultimate turns everyone in his and bastioned ally's AoE invulnerable for 2.5 seconds (AoE Kayle Ult on delay)

Masteries and Runes

The runes and masteries are fairly well but I am not a master at Taric, if you want alternatives you could ask the folks at r/Taricmains about better Runes and Masteries

Skill Sequence Explanation

You always max Q last since it is the only ability that requires more mana the more you level it up, you need it to stay at a low cost because it is your main ability you spam for bravadoing towers

Starting E is generally the best option as most champions are a lot weaker than you at this point. one good stun can give you a great head start in the begging of the game

Note: stands for auto attack in this section

Objective Taking (Epic Monsters/Towers)
>2 > >2 > >2 (Repeat)

This combo drains mana like crazy but thanks to the passive it keeps your attack speed thus clearing rate high and with the constant q spamming, your team stays healthy (During Epic monsters have your w either on the range champions to also heal back-line or the person tanking if the objective is hard to take)

Peeling
>2 > >2 > >2 > >2
(Repeat until who you are peeling is safe) Note that if you aren't tanky while doing this you will have to highly kite

Initiate (Laning)
>2 > >Chase> )>Chase> Repeat
or
>2 > >2 > >2 > (Repeat)
or Turret diving
>2 > >2 > >2

Use the moves Second combo only if they can't run from you or they counter initiate

Initiates (Teamfights)
You initiating:
on whoever is carrying >(Continue only if stun landed on carry or more than 3 people) >2 > >2 > (Person Getting Focused or whoever can rush in if the enemy is running and not turning back)>2
Teammate initiating (Zac/Amumu/Renekton):
on initiater (as they go in[follow up only if stun lands])> (The carry if they counter initiate)> > > (Get in there as often as possible)