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Ahri's 8.8 patch update

Dabby·4/19/2018, 12:58:24 AM·2 votes·1,080 views

Hello Riot and everyone else, I am an Ahri player and I have a few concerns about the changes to Ahri's Orb of Deception. Now that it is removed, I feel Ahri is a less mobile champion who simply relies on her ults to go in or escape tough situations, dodge skills, etc., while in the past her Q was extremely viable and made her feel like a true assassin. During laning phase, Ahri's Q could be used to trade with other mages (ex: Victor) and with the gain of movement speed could potentially dodge the enemy's abilities during the trade. When I was laning with Ahri with this new change, she didn't feel like she flowed anymore. I have played Ahri for a long time, and the thing I enjoyed the most about her was how her movements flowed, she felt graceful and equally lethal, it fit her personality, now she feels unnatural. When your ult is on cooldown, you're afraid of everything that outranges you/can catch up to you because you don't have that additional movement speed to go in/run away. With this new update to Orb, I feel that Ahri solely relies on her ult to engage in fights and kill enemies, which I don't think was the idea of the change. I understand that something needed to be changed to balance Ahri out with the buff she just received, but I wish that Riot had removed the healing from her passive, or something that doesn't feel like it completely changes Ahri gameplay, because the Ahri I know and love is indeed swift like a fox.

5 Comments

Dancing Foxx4/19/2018, 1:12:50 AM1 votes

I have 550K mastery points on Ahri and hate these changes. I feel so clunky and slow. I prefer the speed for repositioning over the damage amp personally. The speed passive now is bad; Ahri is slow on foot and 20% does nothing when most melees have extremely high speeds / slows / stuns or both.

I feel clunk y and this is unfun to me. Just my opinion - sure a lot of people love this. I hate it.

The Bad Touch4/19/2018, 2:06:01 AM1 votes

Must suck only having multiple flashes and a small movement steroid to go with your CC. Must REALLY suck having to follow up on engages, instead of starting them yourself.

Ryoukio4/20/2018, 12:49:17 PM1 votes

i agree, her passive in general is useless now. maybe up movement speed on it and give it a way shorter c, or something different completely. miss the q movment speed

Danni Chimes4/20/2018, 12:56:59 PM1 votes

Hahah Ahri main as well. It takes time. You just have to change the way you play. Believe me...there are ways to keep her mobile and as sly as ever. I build items with slows (in addition to using runes with slows) now...and I know it's annoying af for the enemy. Also build items that give you movement speed (Spellbinder is very nice). That speed boost was way op though...i'll even admit that. Now with the buff to the charm again though...her burst is insane. Like...I've kinda been on a tear with her since the changes.

I definitely miss the boost from Q, but once again...after awhile you'll get used to it. Trust me. Hang in there.