Taric
Taric is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
Attack speed
Special statistics 
Abilities[edit | edit source]
Champion skins[edit | edit source]
- This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Taric (Collection).
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Patch history[edit | edit source]
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
Bastion
- Armor ratio reduced to 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10% of Taric's armor from 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13%.
- Bastion
- New Effect: Cast now has a forgiveness radius of 175 units.
Starlight's Touch
- Bug Fix: No longer fails to cast on an ally tethered by Bastion at max tether range.
- Bug Fix: Using
Navori Flickerblade's Transcendence no longer incorrectly increases its current cooldown.
- Bug Fix: No longer fails to cast on an ally tethered by
- Bastion
- Bug Fix: No longer fails to cast on an ally tethered by Bastion at max tether range.
- Bug Fix: Self-casting after a previously tethered ally has died no longer seeks for ally corpse targets instead of only alive allies.
- Bug Fix: Tether link and unlink SFX now has a delay to prevent it from repeatedly playing when the tethered ally also repeatedly enters and exits the tether's max range.
- V14.1 - January 12th Hotfix
- Stats
- Armor growth reduced to 4.3 from 4.6.
- Bastion
- Armor ratio reduced to 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13% of Taric's armor from 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14%.
- Stats
- Base magic resistance reduced to 28 from 32.
Dazzle
- Cooldown increased to 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 seconds from 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11.
- Starlight's Touch
- Heal health ratio per stack increased to 1% of his maximum health from 0.75%.
- Mana cost reduced to 60 at all ranks from 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85.
- Dazzle
- Stun duration increased to 1.5 seconds from 1.25.
- Cooldown reduced to 15 / 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 seconds from 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 / 13.
- Stats
- Base health increased to 645 from 575.
- Health growth increased to 99 from 85.
- Armor growth increased to 4.6 from 3.4.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
- Starlight's Touch
- Base heal per stack reduced to 25 from 30.
- Heal AP ratio per stack reduced to 15% AP from 20% AP.
- Heal health ratio per stack reduced to 0.75% of his maximum health from 1%.
- Bastion
- Shield health ratio reduced to 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11% maximum health from 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12%.
- General
- Undocumented/Bug Fix: First move voice line now always triggers.
- Undocumented/Bug Fix: Generic item purchase lines have been restored.
- Undocumented/Bug Fix: Missing item specific voice interactions have been repurposed.
- Starlight's Touch
- Mana cost reduced to 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 from 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90.
- Dazzle
- Mana cost reduced to 40 from 60.
Cosmic Radiance
- Undocumented/Bug Fix: Voice lines have been made more frequent to trigger.
- Starlight's Touch
- Mana cost reduced to 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 from 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110.
- Bastion
- Removed: Bound allies no longer mimic abilities if they are
vanished via 
Alpha Strike, Hallucinate, 
Rappel, or 
Void Rush. Mimicked abilities will be removed if the ally becomes vanished via those abilities as well.
- Removed: Bound allies no longer mimic abilities if they are
- Stats
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
- General
- Bug Fix: With
Moonstone Renewer, now properly heals ally champions only once per attack or ability cast in combat.
- Bug Fix: With
- Bastion
- Undocumented/Bug Fix: Periodic VFX missile to signify link to ally no longer "considered as auto attack"; no longer generates or consumes
Kraken Slayer stacks.
- Undocumented/Bug Fix: Periodic VFX missile to signify link to ally no longer "considered as auto attack"; no longer generates or consumes
- General
- Bug Fix: Gems above his right shoulder no longer disappears after he dies for the first time in a game.
- Stats
- Health growth reduced to 85 from 90.
- Bastion
- Bonus armor reduced to 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14% of Taric's armor from 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%.
- General
- Recommended items updated.
- Cosmic Radiance
- Bug Fix: If he casts it and dies during the cast window, the cooldown will now reflect the proper time and not reflect his Bastion cooldown.
- Bug Fix: If he casts it and dies during the cast window, the cooldown will now reflect the proper time and not reflect his
- V9.2 - January 31st Hotfix
- Dazzle
- Bug Fix: No longer hits everything on the map if he casts it while linked to a
Zed who's dashing to his 
Living Shadow.
- Bug Fix: No longer hits everything on the map if he casts it while linked to a
- General
- Default adaptive damage changed to physical from magic.
- Bastion
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it was granting more armor than intended.
- Dazzle
- Base damage reduced to 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 / 250 from 105 / 150 / 195 / 240 / 285.
- Bonus armor ratio increased to 50% bonus armor from 30%.
- Cosmic Radiance
- Cooldown increased to 180 / 150 / 120 seconds from 160 / 130 / 100.
- Stats
- Base armor reduced to 40 from 45.
- Bastion
- Bug Fix: Now correctly grants the shield from
Summon Aery when cast on an ally.
- Bug Fix: Now correctly grants the shield from
- Stats
- Base armor increased to 45 from 25.
Bravado
- Base damage increased to 25 – 93 (based on level) from 22 – 90 (based on level).
- Dazzle
- Base damage increased to 105 / 150 / 195 / 240 / 285 from 100 / 145 / 190 / 235 / 280.
- Stats
- Base mana regeneration increased to 8.5 from 5.
- Mana regeneration growth reduced to 0.8 from 1.
- Starlight's Touch
- Base heal per charge changed to 30 at all ranks from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60.
- Health ratio per charge changed to 1% maximum health from 1.5% bonus health.
- Maximum charges changed to 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 from 3 at all ranks.
- Mana cost changed to 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 from 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 / 140.
- New Effect: Now has a 3 second cooldown. Recharge time unchanged.
- Removed: Bravado empowered attacks reduces Starlight's Touch's recharge timer.
- New Effect: Bravado empowered attacks now grant 1 charge of Starlight's Touch and reduce Starlight's Touch's cooldown by 1 second.
- Dazzle
- Base damage increased to 100 / 145 / 190 / 235 / 280 from 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240.
- Cooldown changed to 17 / 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 seconds from 15 at all ranks.
- Stun duration changed to 1.25 seconds at all ranks from 1 / 1.125 / 1.25 / 1.375 / 1.5.
Pool Party Taric
- Bug Fix: No longer briefly reappears after diving into the floor at the end his recall animation.
- Stats
- Base mana increased to 300 from 250.
- Mana growth reduced to 60 from 75.
- Bastion
- Cast range reduced to 800 from 1100.
- Tether range reduced to 1300 from 1600.
- Dazzle
- Range reduced to 575 from 650.
- Width reduced to 140 from 150.
- General
- Full Relaunch
- Title changed to the Shield of Valoran from the Gem Knight.
- Complete visual upgrade across all skins.
- New splash artwork for
Original Taric, 
Emerald Taric, 
Armor of the Fifth Age Taric and 
Bloodstone Taric.
- New voiceover.
- New lore.
- Full Relaunch
- Stats
- Range increased to 150 from 125.
- Base health reduced to 575 from 619.2.
- Base health regeneration reduced to 6 from 7.94.
- Base mana reduced to 250 from 349.08.
- Base mana regeneration reduced to 5 from 8.5.
- Base armor reduced to 25 from 25.876.
- Base attack damage reduced to 55 from 57.88.
- Mana growth increased to 75 from 56.
- Mana regeneration growth increased to 1 from 0.8.
- Armor growth reduced to 3.4 from 3.7.
- Bravado - New I
- Renamed from
Gemcraft. - Empowered attacks increased to 2 from 1.
- Damage adjusted to 22 – 90 (based on level) (+ 15% bonus armor) from 20% total armor.
- On-hit cooldown reduction reduced to 1 – 0.55 (based on cooldown reduction) seconds from 2.
- Removed: On-hit cooldown reduction reducing R's.
- New Effect: Grants 100% total attack speed for the 2 next empowered attacks.
- Renamed from
- Starlight's Touch - New Q
- Taric expends all his current charges to heal himself and surrounding allied champions, as well as those surrounding his
Bastion-protected champion, for 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 (+ 20% AP) (+ 1.5% bonus health) per charge. Taric can store up to 3 charges, for a maximum heal of 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+ 60% AP) (+ 4.5% bonus health). Bravado's on-hit cooldown reduction is increased to 6 – 3.3 (based on cooldown reduction) for Starlight's Touch's cooldown. - Cost: 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 mana
- Recharge time: 15 seconds
- Taric expends all his current charges to heal himself and surrounding allied champions, as well as those surrounding his
- Bastion - New W
- New Passive: Both Taric and the Bastion-protected champion's armor are increased by 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20% of Taric's armor.
- New Active: Taric shields himself and the target allied champion for 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12% maximum health for 2.5 seconds, granting them Bastion and lasting so long as they remain in range or Taric targets a new champion. Taric's abilities will also cast from nearby allies protected by Bastion but the effects do not stack.
- Taric can target himself to gain a shield, which will remove his current Bastion.
- Taric can target himself to gain a shield, which will remove his current
- Cost: 60 mana
- Cooldown: 15 seconds
- New Passive: Both Taric and the
- Dazzle - E
- New Active: Taric and his Bastion-protected champion project beams of starlight toward the target location, which persists in the given direction for the next 1 second. After that time, the beams erupt dealing 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240 (+ 50% AP) (+ 30% bonus armor) magic damage to enemies hit and stunning them for 1 / 1.125 / 1.25 / 1.375 / 1.5 seconds.
- Cost: 60 mana
- Cooldown: 15 seconds
- New Active: Taric and his
- Cosmic Radiance - New R
- After a 2.5 seconds delay, cosmic energy radiates outward from Taric and his Bastion, granting invulnerability to all allied champions hit for 2.5 seconds.
- Cost: 100 mana
- Cooldown: 160 / 130 / 100 seconds
- After a 2.5 seconds delay, cosmic energy radiates outward from Taric and his
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Taric comes from طارق Arabic Ṭariq "striker" < Semitic root ṭ-r-q "to strike".[2]
- Ṭariq later underwent semantic shift from "striker" to "One knocking at the door; wayfarer, traveller by night" and thus "star".
Surfer Singed carries a giant bottle of "
Taric's Tropical Tan" sunscreen.
See also[edit | edit source]
basic attack animation that must play out in order to launch it. For 
projectile basic attacks, the windup usually aligns with drawing the projectile on-screen.The attack windup is displayed as a percentage, and any windup modifier is listed as a decimal next to it.
The Attack speed ratio (AS ratio) adjusts the effectiveness of bonus AS from all sources. It is usually equal to the unit's base AS (level 1 with no bonuses), but tuning to a higher or lower relative value translates to more or less bonus AS received compared to other units with the same base AS.
(All values in decimal form)
The ingame stats HUD displays the AS ratio instead of base AS to communicate this comparative effectiveness. The Wiki opts to always list both stats and show the AS ratio as "N/A" if the two are equal.
Gameplay radiusA unit's gameplay radius is a stat that most closely resembles the concept of a 'hitbox', and is the radius used for 
edge range effects, which include basic attacks, line collision missiles, rectangular AOEs, and others. The gameplay radius determines the reach of both incoming and outgoing effects: for example, enemies are within a unit's 
basic attack range based on the edge of their gameplay radius and vice versa.
Selection radiusA unit's selection radius is a stat that determines the horizontally furthest point from the center of their model that other players' cursor is allowed to be, while still maintaining the ability to select that unit.
Selection heightGameplay in League of Legends takes place in two dimensions no matter the visuals. However, a virtual height dimension that is perpendicular to the ground creates the game's three-dimensional view, which in combination with the camera's perspective necessitates the usage of the selection height.
Acquisition radiusA unit's acquisition range is a stat that determines the distance at which they will acquire attack targets when a target unit is not specified by the player.
- Auto-attacking automatically orders an idle champion to acquire enemies within this range. This can be disabled in the Settings.
- Attack-move commands scan for targets within this range while moving toward a given location.
Attack range bonuses modify the champion's acquisition range by the same amount.
Support
Bottom Carry. This role's initial goal is to assist their more vulnerable team mate through the earliest stages of the game, and is a position that suits champions with either utility, disengage or high base damage.
Within a duo lane, the optimal strategy for earning gold is to designate a single champion to farm while the other is recommended to purchase an economy item. The Support is expected to fulfill the latter designation: consequently, the position is not suitable for champions that are highly dependent on item-based power spikes. The Support is also expected to be the primary contributor to the team's 
vision.
Enchanters, Catchers, 
Wardens and 
Burst Mages are the most likely champions to be selected in the Support position.
EnchanterEnchanters focus on amplifying their allies' effectiveness by directly augmenting them and defending them from incoming threats. Enchanters themselves are often quite fragile and bring relatively low damage to the table, meaning they really only shine when grouped together with others.
- Examples
WardenWardens are defensive tanks. Wardens stand steadfast, seeking to hold the line by persistently locking down any on-comers who try to pass them. Wardens keep their allies out of harm’s way and allow them to safely deal with enemies caught in the fray.
- Examples
Support (Legacy) Tank (Legacy)Tanks excel in shrugging off incoming damage and focus on disrupting their enemies more than being significant damage threats themselves.
Mana
Mana (also known as MP) is a stat that is the resource of many champions necessary to cast most of their abilities. Mana can be restored via mana regeneration and some abilities, items, runes, and buffs.
Mana is represented in-game by the blue bar within the HUD, indicating the champion's current mana and maximum mana. Current mana is reduced by expenditure through paying an ability's mana cost.
MeleeMelee champions have a basic attack range usually within 200 units. A melee attack does not use a projectile to deal damage, therefore not subject to effects that mitigate projectiles, like 
Wind Wall. Some champions can shift between a ranged and melee form, and certain items/runes differ for melee characters.
Proc damage
spell damage and so will trigger ability effects. Some forms of on-hit damage, such as by 
Blade of the Ruined King and 
Spellblade, also benefit from 
life steal.
Proc damage does not interact with most other effects, such as 
Luden's Companion or 
Arcane Comet. The main exception is:
Omnivamp and 
Physical vamp (where applicable) heal for a percentage of damage dealt.
Effects triggered by damage subtypes will still occur in spite of proc damage's non-reactive nature (e.g. 
Black Cleaver on instances of 
Physical damage and 
Morellonomicon on instances of 
Magic damage).
Magic damage- Applies:
Bloodletter's Curse's Vile Decay- Morellonomicon's and
Oblivion Orb's 
Grievous Wounds - Omnivamp
- Triggers:
- Mitigated by:
Damage shields- Invulnerability
- Damage reduction
Magic resistance
Magic shields
TurretA turret, also called a tower, is a fortification that defends a part of territory. It provides vision of the area and autonomously fires homing bolts at nearby enemies, establishing a defensive ground for allies.
Turrets are most notable in 
Classic, defending against waves of enemy 
Minions from their ultimate goal of destroying the nexus. Champions work to destroy enemy turrets to push their assault into the enemies' territory. Turrets visually fall apart as they take damage.
Dodge
block, but not 
blind.
Effects that dodge damage will only dodge instances that are dodgeable. Note that these are specified in the ability details on the Wiki.
Basic attacks and abilities that apply on-hit effects are always dodged, unless otherwise stated.
This effect is exclusive to 
Jax's 
Counter Strike and 
Nilah's 
Jubilant Veil.
Block Blind and 
dodge take precedence over block.
Effects that block damage will only block instances that are blockable. Note that these are specified in the ability details on the Wiki.
Basic attacks and abilities that apply on-hit effects are always blocked, unless otherwise stated.
This effect is exclusive to 
Shen's Spirit's Refuge and is similar though mechanically different to Dodge.
BlindA unit that is blinded will miss their basic attacks for the duration, comparable to attacking a target that is able to dodge or block, but not mechanically similar. Missed basic attacks will fail to deal damage and apply 
on-hit effects, with the exception of some empowered basic attacks. Blind does not prevent the unit from declaring attacks, unlike 
Disarm.
| Interrupts: | Does not interrupt any actions, but will prevent on-hit effects from being triggered by basic attacks.
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| Reduction: | The duration is affected by  Tenacity.
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| Resist: | Resisted by  crowd control immunity.
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| Removal: | Removed by  Cleanses with the exception of  Mikael's Blessing.
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Arena
- Regular Modes
- 8-Team Round-Robin Tournament
- Battlefields — The Grand Reckoning
- Ancestral Woods
- Desert Oasis
- Frostbite Thicket
- Koi Pond
- Magma Chamber
- Reckoner Arena
Centered rangeCentered range is calculated from the center of a source unit's hitbox to the center of a target unit's hitbox.
- Centered range is used for most unit-targeted abilities.
- It is less effective and may seem to have diminished reach against large units.
Heal
current health, but never above their maximum health.
Outgoing heals can trigger bonus effects from Summon Aery, 
Ardent Censer, and 
Staff of Flowing Water.
Heal current health, but never above their maximum health.
Outgoing heals can trigger bonus effects from Summon Aery, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water.
TetherA tether is an effect that applies a bind buff on both the source and the target(s), which then creates the actual tether that requires both to remain in close proximity so any accompanying effects (damage, crowd control, heals, buffs, etc) can apply.
Death). The tether will also break from a transition into the 
zombie state due to the target already dying.Generally, a bind with an enemy will break along with the tether, whereas a bind with an ally will last indefinitely and automatically reapply the tether when within range.
Shield health that absorbs the next instances of damage in place of actual health. This can be improved by various items and effects depending on the type of shielding.
Incoming shields can trigger bonus effects from 
Shield Bash. Outgoing shields can trigger bonus effects from Summon Aery, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. Shield reduction effects, exclusively 
Serpent's Fang, reduce all incoming and outgoing shields.
Shield health that absorbs the next instances of damage in place of actual health. This can be improved by various items and effects depending on the type of shielding.
Incoming shields can trigger bonus effects from Shield Bash. Outgoing shields can trigger bonus effects from Summon Aery, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. Shield reduction effects, exclusively Serpent's Fang, reduce all incoming and outgoing shields.
Vanish
untargetability, vanish briefly hides a unit from the game's renderer, which causes it to become completely undetectable and invisible even to effects such as 
Oracle Lens. Vanished units are 
unable to act. As with all untargetability, 
tethers will still persist on a target that vanishes.
Vanish is not considered 
stealth and does not interact with sight effects.
Targeting forgivenessCertain unit-targeted abilities present an accuracy-grace system called targeting forgiveness.
directly selected upon using the ability, it will automatically search for one within a certain 
center-to-center forgiveness radius. If a valid target is found within the forgiveness radius, the ability will automatically acquire them and cast on them. If multiple targets are found, the nearest one to the forgiveness radius' center is chosen.
Only ally-targeted abilities may utilize this system. Not to be confused with a different, priority-based system that a few other spells (e.g. 
Smite) use.
Edge rangeEdge range is calculated from the edge of a source unit's hitbox to the edge of a target unit's hitbox.
- Edge range is mostly used for basic attacks; skill shots; and point-blank areas of effect (including auras).
- These become more effective against large champions, as the source gains more reach against them. This may be favorable or unfavorable: durable champions tend to be larger and thus easier to hit, and frail champions tend to be smaller and more difficult to hit.
StunA unit that is stunned is unable to control its movement, declare attacks, cast abilities, activate items or use the 
summoner spells 
Flash, 
Teleport, 
Hexflash, and 
Mark / 
Dash for the duration.
Stun is an 
immobilizing effect.
| Interrupts: | Interrupts attack windups (excluding  uncancellable windups) and all  channeled and charged abilities.
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| Reduction: | The duration is affected by Tenacity.
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| Resist: | Resisted by crowd control immunity and  Dr. Mundo's  Goes Where He Pleases.
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| Removal: | Removed by Cleanses.
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Ghosted
Area damageArea damage is the damage type dealt by most area of effect abilities, as well as a select few basic attacks, items and runes. Area damage is not exclusive to being applied by purely physical, magic or 
true damage, and instead can be dealt by any of the three damage sub-types.
- Spell vamp heals with one-third effectiveness.
- Many items effects are triggered whenever you deal an instance of area damage (i.e. ability effects).
- For example:
Rylai's Crystal Scepter, 
Liandry's Torment and Luden's Companion. - Compared to single target spell damage, area damage does not trigger
Muramana.
- For example:
- Arcane Comet's current cooldown is reduced by 10% whenever you deal an instance of area damage to a champion.
- Area damage is reduced by 25% versus Jax's Counter Strike.
- Many champion summoned units such as
Elise's 
Spiderlings, 
Yorick's 
Mist Walkers, and 
Naafiri's 
Dune Hounds take reduced damage from area damage.
Effects triggered by damage subtypes will occur (i.e. physical, magic or true).
References[edit | edit source]
- Map specific balancing
- Champions with map-specific balancing
- League of Legends champion
- Taric
- Champion gameplay article
- Mana champion
- Melee champion
- 2009 release
- Enchanter champion
- Warden champion
- Support champion (Legacy)
- Tank champion (Legacy)
- Support champion
- Middle champion
- Adaptive physical champion
- 675 BE champion
- 585 RP champion
- Healer champion
- Shield champion
- Stun champion
- Invulnerable champion
- Champions with Multiple Classes (Modern)