Talk:Taric/@comment-23983141-20150520010709/@comment-25838025-20150705203217

Never max the stun. It's not a viable damage output, takes a bs amount of mana to use, and doesn't even last very long. Max W for the damage output and the personal armour buff (especially when up against an ad champion). As for your statement on the 10 second cooldown, his passive greatly lowers that. And when you're a solo lane you can easily proc it by farming. Also, as Taric one of your main focuses in your build path is to get CDR so that will lower all your spells INCLUDING the W. Weave your spells and your W will be up every 2-3 seconds to shred armour and do a lot of damage.

Iceborne Gauntlet has to have been specifically made for bruiser Taric because with all the armour shred from W and damage from R, he will wreck your face before you even get him half HP due to his resistances and healing sustain.

Although Taric isn't the best top laner out there, he's not that bad. And if you can get ahead, you will snowball pretty well into a solid bruiser by the mid-game and a complete monster in the late game as you will be nearly unkillable.