Talk:Taric/@comment-26420279-20170308102223/@comment-24496127-20170309233011

There are many cases in which the supports damage isn't enough to break the shield, and they're forceed to uselessly watch their adc get killed. That's not interactive gameplay.

Alistar, Blitz, Taric, Braum, Leona, Janna, Nami. They all either have magic damage only with their cc, or have no consistent way to break the shield given that theres at least two levels in it. At max rank, only Bard or Zyra  is really able to deal with it, although that doesn't happen until level 13, so it's not too bad. Most Morgs take two points in shield early before maxing Q, because it literally doubles the value of the shield, whereas no damage abilities scale nearly as hard.

All those supports win trades through the cc associated with them, sure the black shield target still takes damage, but if it comes down to a slapfight between adc's, that still feels shitty for the support who's wanting to do stuff.

What supports even buff the adc? Braum...kinda? The only buffs I think of are magic damage on hits, so...yeah.

In midlane, against mages, the shield works fine. Against AD, it can be kinda hit or miss depending on cc reliance. In botlane, it's potential faults just show through more.