Ex Ahri Main, Possibly Ex League Player

Nuises··1 votes·537 views

I'm an OTPAhri , no doubt, 101%. Ahri was my first love when I started playing league. So lets go to the lore of how I started to play her: "Long ago freshmen year, my friend was trying to get me to play League and he got me to playAshe . It was literally my first game and he was playing Warwick and then he started flaming me and blaming me for feeding and not knowing what to do. So after that incident I quit, but then I met another friend who asked me if I played League. I told him that I played it ONCE and then never again because I thought it was too hard and I hated the experience with my first friend who "tried" to teach me how to play. So he sat me down at his computer and told me to pick a champion. ANY champion because he owned them all and he would gift me them and teach me how to play them. That's when I found my true love:Ahri . Ever since that day, I played her game after game after game and I just fell in love with everything you could do with her. The outplays, the escapes, the clutch charms that saved your ass under tower, the situational builds. Well back to the current day, I'm a senior now and this patch has just demolished my love for League, I just hate what they did to Ahri . People say they "balanced" her, but I can feel the nerf. I can feel the lack of damage in my usual combo and I can feel the lack in kill potential in trades. In order for to do damage, you HAVE to build her full ap now and I feel like that's just the most stupidest thing ever. With the way I play , with the way I build her, it was better and fun. I could build item 3027 on her when facing a heavy assassin match up like:Akali Katarina Zed Yasuo and go for the: shit damage early, duel potential late. Now, that doesn't work because if you go anywhere off the "meta" build you will fall and do no damage what so ever and you will only be useful for your charm and end up getting a billion assists. Ahri was already hard enough to carry with because of her playstyle: you kill 1 person, reset, setup, kill another and then her 7 year cooldowns were already bad enough. Ahri is a high risk, high reward champion because of how fucked she can get early and then the possibility of not doing damage late. Now she HAS to do good early or manage to have incredible farm because of how item reliant they made her. That basically sums up my rant, but I just really hate this patch and because of it I might quit League, just really kills me that the only reason they thought about nerfing her was because of all the people who JUST started to play her and don't realize the endless amounts of things you can do with her.

ON ANOTHER NOTE

Since Ahri is no longer playable and or fun to me, does anyone have any suggestions on champions who are fun and or have the same playstyle as Ahri ? Because I shit you not, I'm about ready to uninstall League. Thanks for reading.

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ScriptBrand3 votes

They only made her so that she actually has to land skillshots to secure kills....the most obnoxious thing in league is when ahri misses her q and e, but u still die to all her proximity damage

Nuises1 votes

I know it's obnoxious ,but you don't realize how much that hurts her. Like they could've made her cooldowns EVEN WORSE or something, but ruining her damage completely makes her unplayable and she can't "assassinate" anyone anymore because ya know, she's sorta an ASSASSIN

Tarzeus3 votes

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I know it's obnoxious ,but you don't realize how much that hurts her. Like they could've made her cooldowns EVEN WORSE or something, but ruining her damage completely makes her unplayable and she can't "assassinate" anyone anymore because ya know, she's sorta an ASSASSIN

You are upset because you have to land her combo to get a kill now?

Inting Pillow1 votes

She's butthurt lol. She wants Ahri to be played like a Syndra with mobility. Well the only thing keeping Syndra even close to balanced is the lack of mobility and them only being useful with ult up. Ahri has easy CC, true damage, 3 dashes, a lock on spell (and the dashes are as well), if they could kill with the three dashes and their W only that would be broken. Basically they want to be able to miss skillshots and still delete ADCs

Akali is SO HOT3 votes

Even after her well deserved nerfs she's still one of the best midlaners in the game. The nerfs she got were tiny love taps at best. Now it takes an ounce of skill to play her, which must be hard to adjust to for people that are used to facerolling their keyboards when playing her.

NiamhNyx1 votes

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Even after her well deserved nerfs she's still one of the best midlaners in the game. The nerfs she got were tiny love taps at best. Now it takes an ounce of skill to play her, which must be hard to adjust to for people that are used to facerolling their keyboards when playing her.

I like to face roll =u= I pick cait when i wanna do.... never mind you dont faceroll with her, just aa. umm, viegar, thats one. Pure face roll.

PhantomGG2 votes

So I'm also a person who has played a lot of Ahri and I want to have a few words with you ^_^

First off, every champion in this game is item reliant. Some more so than others, cough cough vayne. Cough cough Gangplank. But Ahri on the other hand is a champion who can make plenty of plays even with a item disidvantage. So first off let's talk about some of the amazing pros to Ahri. I am sure you allready know them, but lets talk about them anyways.

Pros

-Great early game lane phase with the fact she has her Q for easy poke -Great sustain through her Passive if you know how to abuse it (health sustain) -A master of pick making if you are good at landing skill shots (her charm) -Very safe to play, and hard to kill once she is level 6 -Can easily assassinate a apc or a adc if she catches them mis positioning -Very versatile in her build path

Cons -Does not have the best burst/one shot combo -Does not scale that great -is easily countered by stuff like braum and yasuo or just big beefy front liners who won't let you get ontop of the adc -Very Squishy -Through her high skill cap, if you want to win on her, every game you have to go try hard mode.This sounds like a odd con, but think of it like this. Some champions on this game, no insult to those players, are just legit easier to play. Thus they are less mentally draining. If you go five or six games or more a day playing nothing but ahri, by the time your done, you WILL feel mentally exhausted.

So that being said, one of the things that makes ahri great is her charm, CC is king on this game, and imo unless they were to completely butcher ahris damage, because of her charm, she will always be a relevant mid laner. So personally I find it silly you want to quit because of a single patch.

Personally I feel if you quit league over ahri being nerfed, than you never were a fan of league in the first place, and hell maybe not even a fan of ahri. A true fan of a game will look for ways to stay relevant, look for ways to keep their favorite characters relevant, that's part of the fun. Looking for new tricks and methods to stay a strong player.

Hell she even still has a 52 percent win rate, Ahri is a great champion, always will be. The only way she won't be great is if they literally GUT her like a pig.

I do wish you the best of luck. But honestly like I said, if you quit this game over a single patch, than perhaps this just isn't the game for you.

NiamhNyx2 votes

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Personally I feel if you quit league over ahri being nerfed, than you never were a fan of league in the first place, and hell maybe not even a fan of ahri. A true fan of a game will look for ways to stay relevant, look for ways to keep their favorite characters relevant, that's part of the fun. Looking for new tricks and methods to stay a strong player.

You know, I was about to tell them this, but I second guessed my self because I did not feel like explaining any further.

100% true though. Ive mained sona since she was released, the rework that was supposed to ruin her, the removal of permanent long ass range auras, made quite a lot of people leave her. I absolutely love sona, no matter how much they change her, it wont change the fact that she will always be my main.

PhantomGG1 votes

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You know, I was about to tell them this, but I second guessed my self because I did not feel like explaining any further.

100% true though. Ive mained sona since she was released, the rework that was supposed to ruin her, the removal of permanent long ass range auras, made quite a lot of people leave her. I absolutely love sona, no matter how much they change her, it wont change the fact that she will always be my main.

just gotta throw down the truth hammer is how i see it.

Sèx Craved Eve1 votes

Riven Is really fun but really hard to animation cancel with. If you actually put in a couple months of time(intimidating, yes?) you'll find her to be an awesome champion that rewards good play. Taliyah Another kiting champion with a devastating combo and great roaming potential. Syndra Just press R. Xayah They look kinda similar, I guess?

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