Talk:Taric/@comment-4922088-20170702204654/@comment-6301771-20170722203527

Having a support with a purposefully bad early game is like having a jungler who purposefully doesn't have any sustain or ability to clear monster camps. The whole point of a support is to keep the carry alive early game so they can wreck face late game. That's core to the identity of the support. They're intended to be a foundation for the rest of the team to build off of.

As for the complains about Taric's heal, yeah, it's bad. It's also about as mana efficient as Sona's hefty 80 Mana heal for 35 (+25% AP). No really. If you don't get any value out of the shield, that's all you're getting early game. It's criminal.