How to lane against Ahri

Glîtchy··5 votes·2,341 views

Hey guys, so as we all know, the nerf Ahri circlejerk has begun, so until people can think up a reasonable argument other than "too much safety", I figured I'd reveal what makes Ahri into a complete bitch, now these are what I've used along with what I've faced while playing Ahri, and trust me, this works, also the "too much safety" argument can also be applied to,

Kassadin, Katarina, Leblanc, Fizz, and anyone else who can dash, blink or dodge.

From my experiences these guys work well against Ahri,

Annie, stuns, nuff said.

Fizz, when landing against Ahri, max your E first, cause you'll wanna catch out her charm before going in on her.

Syndra probably THE BEST Ahri killer, as I've destroyed Ahri and been destroyed as Ahri with/by Syndra, if you can get an ult off on her, no matter HOW FAR she gets, the ult will still go through, even if Syndra dies.

Veigar Ahri hates Veigar with a burning.passion, cause Veigar's ult is actually strong enough to 1 shot her, but a few times I've had to Q then ult to get her down, plus.Veigar is rewarded +10 AP if he kills anyone with a spell, so he just gets stronger each time he kills her.

Malzahar spell shield + Ult = dead fox

Akali Akali is a fantastic matchup against Ahri, Ahri's Foxfires can't aggro an invisible target, plus Akali can farm more since she has no mana to worry about, if you land your Q (shouldn't be that hard to land), then dash to her and auto, Ahri's dead, but if you get charmed in the process, run item 3139 as a safety precaution.

Kassadin, silencing and bursting is what Ahri doesn't like, so run a item 3152 for getting closer then silence her, this has literally screwed me over countless times against Kassadin, even though I've played against him countless times.

Diana dashing to Ahri after marking her followed by her knock up/pull thing (forgot the name and key it's on), then another dash shuts Ahri down quite nicely.

Yasuo wind wall, item 3139 and Crits, nuff said.

Swain item 3065 + item 3027 item 3027+ bird and snares, = gg

Surely you guys AT LEAST knew these work, if not, now you know.

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18 Comments

Dreadlocks3 votes

Ahri needs a nerf.. thats forsure.

Risk of Fate2 votes

Veigar Ahri hates Veigar with a burning.passion, cause Veigar's ult is actually strong enough to 1 shot her, but a few times I've had to Q then ult to get her down, plus.Veigar is rewarded +10 AP if he kills anyone with a spell, so he just gets stronger each time he kills her.

hissssssssss

Also, Kass doesn't silence, but the ults and slows royally hurt. Morgana and Taliyah are pretty good counters thanks to spell shield and bubblewrap respectively. If you can keep her from roaming, that's pretty much all you need to really shut her down.

Glîtchy1 votes

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hissssssssss

Also, Kass doesn't silence, but the ults and slows royally hurt. Morgana and Taliyah are pretty good counters thanks to spell shield and bubblewrap respectively. If you can keep her from roaming, that's pretty much all you need to really shut her down.

I thought he had a silence, probably mixed him and Malz up, and I never really had trouble with those 2, but my brother who's diamond 5 crushes Ahri with Taliyah.

TyrekGoldenspear1 votes

Kassadin doesn't silence anymore though.

Glîtchy1 votes

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Kassadin doesn't silence anymore though.

Yeah I was told that, I'd edit but my computer's forcing an update ATM, and my iPhone won't scroll down to it for editing.

Handy Sandy 1 votes

Ahri counters veigar. She's also good against Syndra since she's skillshot reliant and can dodge her stun and QW with her own ult and Q movement speed. Ahri is a kiting mage/assassin. Swain is easily kited. That whole matchup is just wrong.

Glîtchy1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Chroma Spell,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=PyN0ssVZ,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2017-03-26T15:10:43.700+0000)

Ahri counters veigar. She's also good against Syndra since she's skillshot reliant and can dodge her stun and QW with her own ult and Q movement speed. Ahri is a kiting mage/assassin. Swain is easily kited. That whole matchup is just wrong.

Skill shots? That's a good one, also in these match ups, I rarely win as Ahri without my jg camping,also you seem to neglect that Ahri is about timing, I literally drop her every time I play Veigar and Syndra.

Trenitaliyah1 votes

I seriously find Ahri the most unrewarding and unfunny champion to play in League of Legends as of it is now. She really needs and craves summoner 14 to finish someone off or it's really difficult to land a whole damage combo entirely. Once you dodge the charm it's over for that fox. Seriously, and maybe I'm wrong about this, but I'm kind of happy when I have to lane against Ahri 'cause I know it'll be an easy one. And maybe I'll feed her and lose against her, but even if she goes 10/0 in the first ten minutes, I feel like I can still find the potential to shoot her and outplay her and kill her eventually.

edit: I also main Taliyah , so it's pretty simple.

Glîtchy1 votes

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I seriously find Ahri the most unrewarding and unfunny champion to play in League of Legends as of it is now. She really needs and craves summoner 14 to finish someone off or it's really difficult to land a whole damage combo entirely. Once you dodge the charm it's over for that fox. Seriously, and maybe I'm wrong about this, but I'm kind of happy when I have to lane against Ahri 'cause I know it'll be an easy one. And maybe I'll feed her and lose against her, but even if she goes 10/0 in the first ten minutes, I feel like I can still find the potential to shoot her and outplay her and kill her eventually.

edit: I also main Taliyah , so it's pretty simple.

Taliyah works well from what I've seen when my brother plays her, but I've only faced Taliyah once while playing Veigar, so I have no accurate data on her.

Viktor Von Lazer1 votes

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I seriously find Ahri the most unrewarding and unfunny champion to play in League of Legends as of it is now. She really needs and craves summoner 14 to finish someone off or it's really difficult to land a whole damage combo entirely. Once you dodge the charm it's over for that fox. Seriously, and maybe I'm wrong about this, but I'm kind of happy when I have to lane against Ahri 'cause I know it'll be an easy one. And maybe I'll feed her and lose against her, but even if she goes 10/0 in the first ten minutes, I feel like I can still find the potential to shoot her and outplay her and kill her eventually.

edit: I also main Taliyah , so it's pretty simple.

charm is on a 12 second cooldown... omg.... the horror of having to wait 12 seconds. Zed's shadow is on a 22 second cooldown. NOW if we raised Ahri's charm to something comparable like that so when she missed she had REAL windows of punishment rather than just hang back for a bit and try again practically risk free (at worst miss like 2 cs against a strong laner) then no one would complain about her.

D3m37r11 votes

Syndra probably THE BEST squishy killer.

FTFY

Ahristocats1 votes

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Kassadin, silencing and bursting is what Ahri doesn't like Kassadin silencing silencing

your entire thread revolves around exageration, like malzahar killing ahri with only ult and like his passive has 0 downtime

you don't take in account anything like annie's range, or the cd of akali's W vs ahri's W cd maybe you did it on purpose, i mean you don't even talk about ahri players taking cleanse against annie and simply destroying her while cleanse+ult everyime annie flash and ult

Glîtchy1 votes

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As I've said, I WILL EDIT IT WHEN MY COMPUTER'S DONE UPDATING.

Best princess EU1 votes

as an ahri main i can't help but say bullshit to this thread, no one listed above can destroy ahri. you may go even against her but killing her? wut

if you want to win completly against ahri pick Taliyah AurelionSol

Glîtchy1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sanji fanboy,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=PyN0ssVZ,comment-id=0008,timestamp=2017-03-26T15:43:37.297+0000)

as an ahri main i can't help but say bullshit to this thread, no one listed above can destroy ahri. you may go even against her but killing her? wut

if you want to win completly against ahri pick Taliyah AurelionSol

AurelionSol is countered by gap closers.

Best princess EU1 votes

so...? you think ahri is going to kill him during laning phase? Ahri doesn't even have gap closer pre-6, sol's damages are retarded from lvl 2 to the end.

he doesn't even have mana problems, can clear the wave with W while harassing you if you come near the creeps after clearing the wave ahri doesn't have anything to clear the enemy minions and then sol can out-rotate her

it's x1000 more efficient than anything you listed above

Glîtchy1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sanji fanboy,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=PyN0ssVZ,comment-id=000800000000,timestamp=2017-03-26T16:10:32.067+0000)

so...? you think ahri is going to kill him during laning phase? Ahri doesn't even have gap closer pre-6, sol's damages are retarded from lvl 2 to the end.

he doesn't even have mana problems, can clear the wave with W while harassing you if you come near the creeps after clearing the wave ahri doesn't have anything to clear the enemy minions and then sol can out-rotate her

it's x1000 more efficient than anything you listed above

I literally have never faced him when Ahri's not banned.

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