When it comes to understanding Taric’s abilities, it’s best to start with his passive ability: “Bravura” (P). This boosts and speeds up his next two normal attacks after using one of his basic abilities. For each of these improved normal attacks, Taric also reduces the cooldown of his basic abilities by one second. What does that mean? Simply that Taric wants to get rid of these normal attacks in any case, at best also enemy champions, as they hurt well, but in an emergency also on minions or the like, as this also reduces the cooldown and makes him a fabulous team fighter who can permanently bring in his abilities.

This is also a good transition to his next ability – “Minion of the Stars” (Q), which has as many charges as the current level of the ability and when pressed uses all charges to heal Taric and all teammates in a small area around him. The special thing about this ability is that the healing becomes stronger the more charges it has and that each of its improved attacks adds a whole charge to the “Bravura” (P) instead of reducing the cooldown (of a charge) by only one second. This makes you want to get this ability to level 2 as soon as you have all your other abilities – i.e. when you reach level 4. So you can then always use a “Minion of the Stars” (Q) with 2 charges, i.e. stronger healing, in battles after you have used the improved attacks of “Bravura”, in order to then have 2 improved normal attacks ready again, and so on and so forth.

Next, let’s jump once to the “Dazzle” (E), which shoots a steel in a selected direction, which is activated after a short delay and then damages and stuns all enemies in that direction. As this is his most important ability, all points from level 5 are invested in it until level 5 is reached.

Taric’s “Cosmic Radiance” (R) is his ultimate ability and comes with a radius and a delay – all players standing in this radius after the delay expires become invulnerable for some time.

And now finally to the ability that brings all his other abilities together: “Bastion” (W). When you activate it, you choose a teammate who is then connected to you as long as you are not too far apart. This ally then receives a shield for a short time and a permanent bonus to their own armor value, which depends on Taric’s armor value. If Taric then uses one of his other abilities (apart from the passive) in this bonded status, it is also executed from the position of the ally – i.e. if you use “Minion of the Stars” (Q), for example, the healing plus radius is also used from the ally, which means that you are no longer bound to the small radius in order to heal this teammate. The same applies to his “Dazzle” (E) and “Cosmic Radiance” (R). However, this only affects the respective area on which the ability is active, not its effectiveness, meaning, for example, that enemies hit by both beams of “Dazzle” do not receive double damage or are stunned for twice as long.