Talk:Taric/@comment-24971427-20170224124713/@comment-27004415-20170304152037

You ran into two mistakes people usually make about this game :  a team needs a tank to have more chances to win a game (this might have been true during the tank meta, but it's over for a while now) and  a "tank" support can replace a top lane tank. The difference between a top lane tank and a support tank is the gold income, supports are mechanically getting less gold so they can't get the tank items as fast as they would if they were farming. Also, they are paired with adc so that they can provide utility while the adc provides damage. A tank top provides moderately both  (supposedly)  since he can build more combat oriented items first like sunfire cape.

Let me ask you this, why is it specifically the support that is building sightstone and not any other role? Because he can "afford" losing one item slot. And sightsone is built regardless if you are a mage support, a tank support or any other kind of support (unless you decide you don't want to lose an item slot and build something else that you deem will help your team more, but in that case you're sacrificing vision over something else which is not ideal). This is the same with redemption, you want it in your game because it's broadly too good, and only a support can afford an item slot for an item that provides poor combat stats but great utility at such a low price.

This had nothing to do with taric, but I hope it'll help for your future games. I'll say this, I could see spirit visage being build on him only and only if they have 3 or more ap carries. But this scenario is unlikely since the only viable carry top is rumble and in the jungle are evelyn and elise. Now if you have compelling arguments as to why should I build other SV or other items, I would be glad to hear it, but as others mentioned you provided none.