Support Taric Build

Support Taric Build.

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

Author: Wrekah

TLDR

Starting items
Guardian's Horn should be final item in your build.
Ruby Crystal should be final item in your build.
Quick Skill Order
Taric ability Starlight's Touch should be leveled first.
Q
Taric ability Dazzle should be leveled second.
E
Taric ability Bastion should be leveled third.
W
Final items
Ionian Boots of Lucidity should be final item in your build.
Knight's Vow should be final item in your build.
Kaenic Rookern should be final item in your build.
Fimbulwinter should be final item in your build.
Bandlepipes should be final item in your build.
Sunfire Aegis should be final item in your build.
Quick Runes
Major rune Guardian from Resolve tree.
Minor rune Precision.
Summoner spells
Pick Mark as your Summoner Spell.
Pick Flash as your Summoner Spell.

Support 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

Heal

Heal

Good option if you want extra healing and sustain for your team. Provides movement speed burst and can be used in clutch situations.

Exhaust

Exhaust

Defensive option. Exhaust for more peel and protection against enemy divers and assassins.

Ignite

Ignite

Offensive option and fun button to press. Reduces your going-in potential, but adds some damage and Grievious Wounds for enemy healing. Good to score some kills early.

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How it works

  1. You play Support who goes tanky.

Playstyle

  1. Identify your role: engage, peel, or frontline. 🛡️
  2. Soak damage and protect your carries. 💪
  3. Use CC and utility to control fights. ⛓️
  4. Adapt items to counter enemy. 🎯

How to play

  1. Identify your role within the team (engage, peel, frontline)

Adaptation

  1. If your team needs engage, go Trailblazer and Shurelya's Battlesong.
  2. Your team getting poked to death? Consider getting Redemption AND/OR Locket of the Iron Solari next.
  3. If your team needs peel, go Knight's Vow and Locket of the Iron Solari.
  4. Knight's Vow is a surprisingly good item. Buy it and use it if you have carry or bruiser/fighter who is doing well.
  5. You need to adapt your items to the game. Enemy team heavy on AP? Buy MR. They heavy on AD? Buy Armor. You need some damage? Well buy that.

Buffing your team

  1. Bandlepipes is a great utility item for engaging and buffing your auto attackers when you CC enemies.

Runes

  1. Be careful to not waste Aftershock. Try timing it and keeping it for going in.

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.
Ruby Crystal item.
Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Plated Steelcaps item.
Mercury's Treads item.
For peel
Knight's Vow item.
Locket of the Iron Solari item.
For engage
Shurelya's Battlesong item.
Trailblazer item.
Good tank items
Warmog's Armor item.
Protoplasm Harness item.
Bandlepipes item.
Fimbulwinter item.
Jak'Sho, The Protean item.
Good MR items
Spirit Visage item.
Abyssal Mask item.
Hollow Radiance item.
Force of Nature item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Good Armor items
Randuin's Omen item.
Thornmail item.
Sunfire Aegis item.
Unending Despair item.
Iceborn Gauntlet item.
Dead Man's Plate item.
Frozen Heart item.
Situational items
Titanic Hydra item.
Zeke's Convergence item.
Wit's End 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.
Knight's Vow item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Fimbulwinter item.
Bandlepipes item.
Sunfire Aegis item.