Wtf Riot? Ahri is finally viable and you nerf her?

Seraphic Gospel·2/2/2015, 8:59:00 PM·9 votes·2,203 views

Dear Riot,

Ahri is finally in a strong playable state as a midlane waveclear kite mage.

I'll admit Ahri was probably slightly overtuned with her damage ratios and mobility.

Then I look at the new PBE notes and see this:

Ahri Orb of Deception (Q) mana cost increased to 60/70/80/90/100 from 55/60/65/70/75 Fox Fire (W) damage decreased to 40/65/90/115/140 from 50/80/110/140/170 Fox Fire (W) cooldown lowered to 8/7/6/5/4 from 9/8/7/6/5 Fox Fire (W) Range decreased to 600 from 750.

Really? You're going to kill our waveclear with barely any compensatory buffs? If you are going to nerf her Orb at LEAST lower the mana cost on E. At this rate, she is going to be able to use her main waveclear 3 times and be oom.

Please provide some context as to these changes. As an Ahri main, I'm very sad my fox was finally in a viable state and is about to get nerfed.

10 Comments

thePandev2/2/2015, 9:00:44 PM6 votes

Implying that she wasn't viable before this..

These changes only hurt her early game, which is needed to compensate for her ridiculous mid-late game. W got more spammable, and now there's some sort of risk to using it at least.

Tahil2/2/2015, 9:01:18 PM3 votes

People were complaining about zed nerfs so they had to take it out on another champ instead

Anatharion2/2/2015, 9:40:58 PM1 votes

Ahri's W sucks, and now will suck even more. Her Q poke and E charm and R ult are the only thing good on her. Ahri won't be able to do anything in lane early game except clear waves.

You won't be able to afford to go all in on the enemy mid laner because Mana costs are so high.

DoraTheBrown2/3/2015, 4:03:22 AM1 votes

cuz ahri wasn't viable when dfg was around

Subject 52/3/2015, 4:20:46 AM1 votes

Ahri was slightly overtuned? Uh what?

20% damage amp on dfg Gone What was Ahri's charm like another 20% damage amp? Gone

Buff:

Movespeed++ Damage on charm increased an additional 80

They literally only made Ahri more of a mindless playstyle that Yasuo and Zed share as a whole, mobile with easy to correct error due to mobility. They only made Ahri more safe, which is why she has the 2nd and if i am mistaken probably the 1st best win ratio in the game.

TL;DR

Ahri has a high win ratio because she is a safer mid laner, if you look at the win ratio's most safe champions have higher win ratios. Win rate not good enough? I agree as well, win rate is something not to be judgement alone, however if you think a 40% decrease in AP makes her more viable then . . . i'll need to ask Lulu to assist me with my imagination Lulu