Talk:Taric/@comment-5763148-20140408142401/@comment-5955640-20140408172032

I don't know how effective he is when not played support. When Taric scaled with mana on his passive and had better AP ratios you could take him top and he would do fine because his stun actually hurt. Now you have to shatter on people to lower their armor and auto them to deal damage. Said bonus damage scales with armor. You won't heal yourself for very much and the burst damage on the ult is way nerfed.

You have to come out the gate with lots of armor and just build more but also still build a solid mana item so you don't run out and maybe even AS so you can get your spells off cooldown as quick as possible.

This could spell a good early game for much stronger fighters like Renekton.

Also on the topic of him and Alistar's ults being similar. Alistar removes crowd control from himself and gets damage reduction with and Attack damage boost (note that it is not magic damage and attack damage or all damage in general).

Taric's however is a buff for ability power and attack damage for himself that does not remove crowd control on cast. He creates an aura that buffs people's attack damage ability power. And it deals AOE damage on cast. It's actually quite different and a ton more useful in a team fight.