Talk:Taric/@comment-71.237.10.36-20120512172149/@comment-58.96.77.252-20120519044255

I've been playing a lot of solo top taric, he definitely has a lot of big strengths and I think its pretty overlooked as a counter pick to physical damage top laners.

What I consider him very strong against: Tryndamere, Garen, Riven, Fiora, Gangplank, Renekton. He can also do pretty well against AD Nid, Lee Sin, Olaf, but you have to actually play a lot better than them to win. I'm probably forgetting a lot of others, and less common picks.

Do not pick him against Shen, Warwick, Irelia, or any of the AP solo tops (Rumble, Vlad, Swain, etc)

For items, start either boots or cloth. Later on get either tabi or mercs for your upgraded boots.

Good early game items include brutaliser, phage and aegis.

Later on you can invest in a BC for raw damage, mallet for utility and tankiness, wits end can be decent against a team with good AP damage and starks is also really good. Guardian Angel is also situationally good later in the game. Atmas can be ok with mallet if you need the armor, and Triforce is great if you get really fed early.

The idea behind it is to max W and have very high armor and with a brutaliser very high armor shred, allowing you to actually melt a lot of top laners. Taric CAN dominate a lane, but unless you are very far ahead he falls off a bit later on, but you can still help your team out drastically mid game by having a max level W and max level heal pretty early on, as well as stacking a couple of aura items. With some CDR you can use your ultimate pretty often and it combined with your W, and the damage and armor pen from brutaliser makes you deal so much damage.

Overall, hes a good pick to really dominate lane against a melee physical damage bruiser, he is easy to gank for due to his stun. I would try and pick him when the enemy team has both an ad top and an ad jungler, so that when they gank you, you have enough armor to just walk out of it.

Give it a try, it is actually pretty strong. And remember if you are going to use your ult, use it before the W, because it gives you AP as well, making your W hit harder.