A Preemptive Plea About Precarious Parity regarding Ahri.

Because alliterations are fun.

As a preface, I know I'm going to get some shit for this one, but it needs to be said.

With Ahri's unfortunate rise to being picked or banned in LCS, and we all know what being picked in LCS does to a champion, I'd like to have Riot hear my plea. PLEASE do not touch her numbers with one exception. Her kit is fine barring two things and the only reason why she is as contested as she is, is because of indirect buffs. Between itemization and meta changes, one reason that stands out is because the champions that performed well against her have been or are being nerfed.

If she absolutely has to be nerfed, there are two things that should be hit and have been alluded to in the previous paragraph. The first is her Q movement speed. Move it to her Ultimate as a passive to reduce her safety in laning phase where she used to be much riskier pre 6. Alternatively, you can make it only activate when she hits an enemy champion with her Q, but that's a lesser nerf. The second thing that should be hit before anything else is her R cooldown. She's reliant on it mid game to make plays and keep herself safe and as is, it's on a fairly short cooldown. By increasing her R CD, it should make Ahri players think about using her R more and should reduce frustration playing against her as people say the main grievance they have against her is that she has too many "Get Out of Jail Free" cards due to the availability of her R.

Preferred nerfs would be indirect nerfs in the form of her itemization, TLD (which could use that spell interaction nerf where 1 spell can't make more than one TLD stack), or buffing champions she struggles with.

I wait my damnation of downvote hell.