How is Ahri in the meta in the higher ranks?

big boowbs·Aug 24, 2016·1 votes·1,555 views

I'm.. only silver 5 and uh I main . I don't really play ranked cause my friends only play normal games. I played ranked in the past week and climbed from b3 to s5 very quickly using Ahri. Right now, in my opinion, Ahri is very freelo in the low ranks. My ranked score with her is 15 wins and 1 lose. So I was wondering how good she is in the higher ranks, Any higher rank Ahri mains out there?

I've decided to continue my quest to climbing the ranks with Ahri cause it seems to be working! <3

15 Comments

Treune81Aug 24, 20162 votes

Ahri is strong in all elos.

PulsarPolloAug 24, 20162 votes

She's meta because of how easy she is to play and how high her burst damage is.

LU Vanilla Rice Aug 24, 20161 votes

She's* definitely not easy! ;)

PulsarPolloAug 24, 20161 votes

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She's* definitely not easy! ;)

She has a ridiculous escape and has insanely fast movement speed. Her combo is all based on her charm, from there you can do whatever you want. I think you're just deluded. ;)

LU Vanilla Rice Aug 29, 20161 votes

I know I am deluded, but not about this! 😉 Ahri has high mobility, and high burst. She has the characteristics of an assassin and a mage. Aside from landing your skillshots, which is an obvious element of skill, the key to Ahri lies in positioning. While she does have 3 dashes, she has to know when to use them in a fight, and where.

I personally have never been great with Ahri, and I have seen great Ahris carry!

PulsarPolloAug 30, 20161 votes

You just proved why she's so easy to play....

LU Vanilla Rice Aug 30, 20161 votes

No.... :P I just told you why she is hard! She has to be able to land all her skillshots, and she has to position extremely well in a fight, otherwise she will do no damage and get blown up!

PulsarPolloAug 30, 20161 votes

She does true damage that scales with AP, how does she do no damage? Positioning is easy because of her repositioning ability with her ult. Please, don't talk to me anymore. You're actually insanely deluded.

LU Vanilla Rice Aug 30, 20161 votes

You'd be surprised how little damage she does if one skill misses or is dodged!

And her ult is her only form of repositioning. It also contains a fair portion of her potential damage, forcing her to think about using it for damage or kiting or running :D.

Trust me, a master ahri is not even close to an average ahri. She requires a lot more skill than you think! Not necessarily mechanical skill, decision making and out-thinking the enemy is required.

Ruin LanceAug 24, 20161 votes

she's one of the most meta mid laners there are... if you are good with her you can pretty much win any game that you snowball in.

Elite4RunnerAug 24, 20161 votes

She has a strong, dynamic, skill based kit.

She has mobility, poke, true damage, sustain, auto targeting abilities, a skill shot silence/cc that is great for engages and harassment, and her ultimate deals great damage along with giving her great mobility.

The fact that she is also fairly old also means that she is very familiar. Despite having had a very small rework, her kit is very largely unchanged so higher elo players feel very comfortable playing her.

MatezoideAug 24, 20161 votes

http://champion.gg/champion/Ahri

Looks pretty good to me.

This is plat+ btw

BisaknospAug 24, 20161 votes

people overestimate her her early sucks pretty hard (damagewise) leblanc is also a better ahri so if you face a good one hf trying to do anything because a good lb can shut down ahri pretty easily she is good at punishing mistakes and poor positioning (common in ranked) so i think that explains her high winrate she isnt op or broken just okay if you know what you are doing

LadyRenlyAug 29, 20161 votes

she is well rounded, not really great at one thing but has a lot of things going for her so you can't really go wrong.

Swiftstrike4Aug 30, 20161 votes

I don't see too many ahri's in my ranked games unless she is first picked (I am Gold I).

It seems people are more likely to pick other midlaners that are considered to be better at specific things such as Anivia Cassiopeia Gangplank Malzahar Leblanc Lissandra Viktor Velkoz . Almost all these midlaners I see a lot more often than Ahri, but Ahri is perfectly fine. She is pretty balanced, but other midlaners I think are stronger than her at the moment. I see Viktor almost every third game and prior the patch I saw GP mid every game he was not banned it seemed.