Talk:Taric/@comment-35136770-20180328233102/@comment-29964258-20180329164511

Unless you get swifties or other excess MS, his lone initiation is not great. He excells at supporting other initiatiors (Vi, Jax, etc) and countering poorly made engages. His stun is very good at stunning the person who engaged on his team and also the rest of their team so they can't come in to support, which tends to get their engager killed. As for items to build, I choose locket over redemption because it scales better with bonus health, and you only need to survive for 2.5 seconds while the ult channels. As far as countering goes, you have to shut down his attacks. Him being able to autoattack is key to his ability to be effective. If I see them take taric, I immediatly pick alistar so I can headbutt taric away, both stopping the stun from landing because I push him more than his stun range away and also stopping him from getting the cooldown resets.