User blog comment:Lunarlark/Niche/Uncommon Junglers/@comment-5556439-20130822025542/@comment-3493296-20130825140735

Thing is, Taric can do his support job way better with items than without it, as his kit depends onto his amount of survivability to attack enemies in order to lower the CD on his heal and his armor to have a very big armor aura. And a lategame Taric is unkillable while dealing great damage thanks to his passive and ultimate.