So I heard Riot plans for Ahri...

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Give kitey mage Ahri a chance. She was pretty awesome back in the day. She was still able to dive for kills, it just wasn't the only thing she could do.

Kitey Ahri is the only Ahri for me tbh. :P

I dislike playing DFG Ahri because she's too much of a one trick pony that if she misses her charm, it's gg and she's lost the fight.

since when Ahri has a lower burst and a slower burst time then most other assassins and a clear point of counter play in charm but also her Ult putting her at a unsafe distance (right next to you since her ult damage range isn't that far) she doesn't nuke if she misses the skill-shots and let alone without ult, there is some clear hyperbole in that statement......so dodge charm or die which is more counter-play then half the other assassin in the game.

Honestly they aren't planning on nerfing her they specifically said they were planning to buff her. DFG really did need to go. First of all DFG is a nerf to assassins other than off assassins as Fizz, Akali, and Kat are all AP based. It might hurt Kat a little more because the DFG active is what ensured her first reset, and I only say it might hurt her a little more because she doesn't seem to be in a good place compared to other assassins. DFG was basically a percent damage boost to your whole combo on top of it being one the highest AP items in the game. DFG pretty much ensured you got the kill as long as you knew how to hit an ability or two. For someone like Veigar or Syndra it meant you could literally one shot someone with your ult. There was no real warning when DFG went down, the second it went down you were pretty much dead.

DFG is getting removed because it's of its tendencies to make many champions frustrating to play against. DFG is really the item that allows Ahri to fulfill the assassin fantasy. Since they are indirectly nerfing her with the DFG they are directly buffing her. That's not doing as little to fix the assassin problem as possible, they aren't changing Ahri to fix the assassin problem. DFG removal will help keep AP assassins (and by that I mean actual assassins) in line and since DFG was the reason Ahri was played as an assassin yes she might become less assassiny but that isn't because Riot doesn't like assassin Ahri or because riot wants to use Ahri to solve the assassin problem.

I'm pretty sure they only made this decision because she is one of the few assassins you can nerf without changing her entire kit.

But they aren't nerfing her at all. They are buffing her. They didn't remove DFG to nerf Ahri. It was an indirect nerf which they want to buff her for.

"Mage ahri" is for lazy people that doesn't know how to play her correctly. Look at high elo players. They don't play the non existant "mage ahri".