Anyone else rather no buffs then PBE Ahri changes

Chris Chiaki··5 votes·734 views

I don't see why the Charm dmg amp needs to be removed. It's one of the more healthy spells in the game, a slow, medium range cc that has tonnes of counterplay (hiding behind minions, flash/mobility dash, side stepping). The CC and damage amp is very strong yes but the spell requires you to position correctly and to land a slow skillshot to get these bonuses. DFG could be argued to be more toxic because it's point and click.

Even without DFG Ahri is in a good spot at the moment, she has good burst (not as crazy as LB, Fizz, Akali) and okay sustained damage (nowhere near as good as Xerath, Azir). I don't see why Riot needs to rework her when she probably the most balanced assassin in the game. Heavily skillshot based, easy to gank before 6 (no mobility skills compared to Zed/Fizz/Katarina/Talon/Akali), not as much snowball potential.

She'll basically be weaker Ziggs with 3 dashes on a 120 sec CD after these changes. These changes hurts her late game (loss of 44% including DFG loss), hurts her laning (Q buff is nice, E+Q/W trades are weaker) and teamfights are so quick now a kite mage has...no place really. You either need to assassinate someone in a teamfight (Zed/Fizz/Talon) or deal tonnes of AOE damage (Azir/Xerath). A kite mage does none of this. Being offmeta is not a bad thing, being completely unrewarding is. What reason is there to play PBE Ahri?

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ChargeItDownMid3 votes

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Chris Chiaki1 votes

But that would turn her into an offmeta champs. If you look at the all the strong mid champs right now it's basically Zed/Fizz/Akali/Orianna/Azir/Xerath are probably the best. They either have high assassination power or AOE/teamfight prescience. A kite mage has none of this, Ahri in her current state without DFG has a bit of both so she's still viable in competitive and SoloQ onto of being a generally healthy champion? Aren't there bigger priorities?

ValyrianBlade1 votes

I agree, I always forgot to use the DFG active and never had problems assassinating people with charm anyways. I liked her because I could make plays like flashing/ulting in for a surprise close range charm to start my combo.

She'll lose a lot of damage due to this. I don't think a kite mage will work in this meta, assassinating the adc is too valuable. The ms boost on q is only good for running away and not for chasing, as you'll run in to the q too quickly if you shoot it in the direction you're going, and sending it behind you removes about half of your damage.

The benefit will be safer laning, q will now offer an escape from ganks pre 6. Overall she'll probably fall out of meta. The playstyle might make her a reasonable bot Lane pick If you happen to have all ad elsewhere (like a zed mid, udyr top, master yi jungle, so no problems with towers).

ImaChickIRL1 votes

muaha

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