Comments on new Ahri

FatelesSin·Jan 31, 2015·2 votes·515 views

So basically... after the new patch came out, I jumped into a few normal games and almost every single game has an Ahri. With the compensation to the removal of DFG, Ahri now gains a HUGE speed boost that is said to "rapidly decay over time", but however, she is able to achieve 450+ movement speed bootless, and it is almost impossible to punish because as long as she is tossing her orb, she is guaranteed to get the free movement speed, which makes her extremely elusive in lane, and I don't think thats what was intended to happen..

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Swïft HïkarïJan 31, 20151 votes

I'm going to go on a limb here just by using your quotes and strike this argument:

Now that DFG is removed, Riot changed a lot of numbers and scaling on Ahri, with the addition of the aforementioned speed buff on her Orb of Deception. However, Ahri is a resource mage; she requires mana. With the mana changes, she can't keep throwing Q's out whenever it's up just to be "elusive", or she'll be mana burned pretty damn quick. This is punishable by shoving hard while she has no mana to clear waves. Keeping your jungler in tow for a counter gank can set you up easy kills and a tower/dragon, if not just pressure and a summoner spell perhaps. If she's not spamming it as I assumed you were mentioning, then your next option would be to punish her in the window of time she has Q on cooldown.

This is simply in regards to your comments about her laning, however.