Shield Tank Taric Build

Shield Tank Taric Build.

Shield Tank Taric build with runes and items. Shield Tank Taric guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Shield Tank Taric build in League of Legends Patch 26.2!

Author: Wrekah

TLDR

Starting items
Guardian's Horn should be final item in your build.
Tear of the Goddess should be final item in your build.
Quick Skill Order
Taric ability Dazzle should be leveled first.
E
Taric ability Bastion should be leveled second.
W
Taric ability Starlight's Touch should be leveled third.
Q
Final items
Ionian Boots of Lucidity should be final item in your build.
Fimbulwinter should be final item in your build.
Heartsteel should be final item in your build.
Sterak's Gage should be final item in your build.
Spirit Visage should be final item in your build.
Kaenic Rookern should be final item in your build.
Quick Runes
Major rune Grasp of the Undying from Resolve tree.
Minor rune Precision.
Summoner spells
Pick Mark as your Summoner Spell.
Pick Flash as your Summoner Spell.

Shield Tank Taric Runes

Resolve
Resolve major tree Grasp of the Undying rune.
Resolve major tree Aftershock rune.
Resolve major tree Guardian rune.
Resolve major tree Demolish rune.
Resolve major tree Font of Life rune.
Resolve major tree Shield Bash rune.
Resolve major tree Conditioning rune.
Resolve major tree Second Wind rune.
Resolve major tree Bone Plating rune.
Resolve major tree Overgrowth rune.
Resolve major tree Revitalize rune.
Resolve major tree Unflinching rune.
Precision
Precision minor tree Absorb Life rune.
Precision minor tree Triumph rune.
Precision minor tree Presence of Mind rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Alacrity rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Haste rune.
Precision minor tree Legend: Bloodline rune.
Precision minor tree Coup de Grace rune.
Precision minor tree Cut Down rune.
Precision minor tree Last Stand rune.
Passive
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Attack Speed rune (+10% Attack Speed).
Passive tree Ability Haste rune (+8 Ability Haste).
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Move Speed rune (+2 Movement Speed).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).
Passive tree Health rune (+65 Health).
Passive tree Tenacity And Slow Resist rune (+10 Tenacity and Slow Resist).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).

Optional Summoner Spells

Exhaust summoner spell

Exhaust

Defensive option. Exhaust for peeling against enemy divers and assassins and protecting your carries.

Ignite summoner spell

Ignite

Offensive option if you are feeling spicy. Grievous Wounds + some damage. Good in early fights and you can score some kills, but reduces your going-in potential. Especially later.

Ghost summoner spell

Ghost

Ghost for extra mobility - great for chasing down fleeing enemies and ensuring you can land your CC.

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How it works

General

  1. The idea of the build is centered around getting frequent, massive shields from Fimbulwinter combined with Sterak's Gage and more.
  2. You act as a disruption tank with surprisingly high survivability.

Playstyle

  1. Stack Tear of the Goddess and rush Fimbulwinter. 🧊
  2. Stay in fights and spam slow/CC to get big shields over and over. 🛡️
  3. Adapt your tank items to what the enemy team is throwing at you. ⚔️

How to play

Shield Tank Taric

  1. You are all about shields. Bastion (W), Fimbulwinter and Sterak's Gage.

General

Getting started

  1. Start with Guardian's Horn and Tear of the Goddess. Your early goal is to stack Tear as fast as possible.
  2. Rush Fimbulwinter #1. Once completed and fully stacked, every time you slow/CC an enemy, you will gain a shield.

Items

  1. Sterak's Gage is good counter against burst damage and works nicely with shield tank fantasy. (Note: Protoplasm Harness is another option that might be better in the future, but currently, Sterak's Gage remains superior for this setup).
  2. Spirit Visage heavily amplifies both your healing and shielding, it is core item.

Adapting

  1. After your core items (Fimbulwinter, Sterak's, Kaenic, Spirit Visage), adapt to the enemy team.
  2. If they are heavy on AD, go Armor (Frozen Heart, Randuin's). If they are heavy on AP, buy MR (Force of Nature).

Runes

  1. Be careful to not waste Aftershock. Try timing it and keeping it for going in.
  2. Shield Bash is incredible here because you will constantly have a shield up.

Items

  1. Hitting your Dazzle (E) stun will proc Fimbulwinter.

Tips and Tricks

Champion

Bravado (Passive)

  1. Always keep auto attacking, whenever possible. Your Bravado (Passive) provides good damage and reduces cooldowns of your basic abilities!
  2. Also weave abilities for even more cooldown reduction. I.e. two auto attacks - spell - two auto attacks - spell. This way you can reduce Dazzle (E) cooldown very fast.

Dazzle (E)

  1. To elevate your Taric's game, when you want to Dazzle (E) + Flash combo make sure to do it at the very last frame of the animation, so enemies won't have any time to react.

Cosmic Radiance (R)

  1. Do not wait for 'special' moment with your Cosmic Radiance (R)! You feel that fight is about to happen, use it early.
  2. You can use your Cosmic Radiance (R) to team fight (combined with Dazzle (E) and just going in) or to scare off enemies or to dive under turret.

Engaging

  1. You have good engaging tools - Dazzle (E) and Cosmic Radiance (R). Use it!

Taric Combos

  1. E + Flash Combo: You can use Dazzle (E) then Flash.

Riot

  1. The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
  2. Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
  3. Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.

Skill Order

  • Taric [object Object] ability.
    Q
    Starlight's Touch
  • Taric [object Object] ability.
    W
    Bastion
  • Taric [object Object] ability.
    E
    Dazzle
  • Taric [object Object] ability.
    R
    Cosmic Radiance

Items

Starting items
Guardian's Horn item.
Tear of the Goddess item.
Boots
Plated Steelcaps item.
Mercury's Treads item.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Rush this
Fimbulwinter item.
Core shield items
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Sterak's Gage item.
Fimbulwinter item.
Spirit Visage item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Good tank items
Jak'Sho, The Protean item.
Warmog's Armor item.
Good MR items
Abyssal Mask item.
Spirit Visage item.
Hollow Radiance item.
Force of Nature item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Good Armor items
Frozen Heart item.
Randuin's Omen item.
Unending Despair item.
Iceborn Gauntlet item.
Sunfire Aegis item.
Dead Man's Plate item.
Thornmail item.
Situational - going bruiser
Sundered Sky item.
Heartsteel item.
Blade of The Ruined King item.
Titanic Hydra item.
Wit's End item.
Situational - support
Zeke's Convergence item.
Knight's Vow item.
For the last fight
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Elixir of Iron item.
Elixir of Wrath item.
Example final build
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Fimbulwinter item.
Heartsteel item.
Sterak's Gage item.
Spirit Visage item.
Kaenic Rookern item.