I'm really getting tired of the Boards perception of Ahri players.

ModAcademy Kayn··2 votes·944 views

Lately, with the sudden release of (another) Ahri skin, I've been seeing the terms of "weeaboo" or "Horny teenagers" being thrown around a lot by people talking about Ahri mains/people who buy her skins.

It's kinda irritating how people conceive Ahri as some sort of thing that attracts teenage boys, or "Weeaboos". We have people like Nidalee MissFortune Zyra (They are only examples, i personally find nothing wrong about them) and not to mention RekSai who have a considerably same amount of skin showing, but none of these champs mains are thrown with terms like Ahri mains get. Sure sex appeal is a thing, and I'm not against it, but does that really dictate a champ and all her fans?

For myself, I got into league because of The New Dawn cinematic. Three things interested me, Ahri, Leona, and the Giant ass Naut, who disappointed me on his size in game. I found the characters interesting, especially Naut, whom i wondered what he really was, and started playing the game to find out about them.

But because I'm interested in the backgrounds, characters and playstyle of Ahri (and Co.), that makes me some sort of hormonal teenager? Come on, guys. Grow up a bit.

12 Comments

sp4414 votes

Honestly, it bothers me because unlike the other examples that you gave, Ahri is actually rather interesting as a character, I do like previously morally questionable or evil characters having a crisis of conscience and trying to make amends with the suffering that they caused while still trying to attain their original objectives.

...Even if for whatever reason, her voiceover does not at all reflect her character.

ModAcademy Kayn1 votes

Yeah, her voice lines seem to place her back when she's still murdering people for the bottom of their shoes. I hope that she may be updated if there was a Ionia event anytime in the future.

sp4411 votes

Yet for some reason they didn't update MF's lines even though she's been revealed to be a complete psychopath. Not even in her "no more games" Captain skin.

But they updated GP's lines... twice.

ModAcademy Kayn1 votes

I wouldn't say Pyscho-path. A lot of Revenge goes on in her new lore, since he killed her mother. Overall, I think her character is outside of her revenge status, since we already have new GP for that and old Graves.

sp4411 votes

Considering that she wants to kill pretty much everybody who served under Gangplank (Which is most of Bilgewater), and doesn't seem to care that she set the town on fire when she took the GP-Man down, I think psycho is a good description.

FattyDrake1 votes

Yeah, she's actually one of the deeper characters in the game, but, you know the old adage, "sex sells." Look at the backlash to when her splash art got changed to see how many would react to her overall in-game character being changed. People really didn't like seeing the "dark side" of Ahri. :P

sp4411 votes

Yet the New Dawn cinematic portrayed her actual character rather faithfully, even if she didn't say anything.

YCitizenSnipsY1 votes

Except for the blue eyes and one tail but other than that i can see your point

Raxistaicho2 votes

I agree with you there :) I play Ahri because she's extremely fun, zipping around the map, and is solid in most situations, not because she's hot.

FattyDrake2 votes

The awesome thing about certain champions ( Fizz ) is you can be all horny for them and no one will accuse you of that if you're really into them. *^_^*

ModAcademy Kayn2 votes

Or dem sweet, sweet RekSai thighs.

Zmuecat1 votes

If people are going to insult a general population of people (Ahri players, LoL players, etc.) they aren't going to go ahead and research the correct way to do it.

They are going to just say shit, and whatever gets a rise out of people is what's going to stick. Ahri got stuck with weeaboo because of the Asian theme and Horny teenager because she's a female.

My opinion at least. If every Ahri main suddenly took offense to Beefactory, I'm 90% sure that every time someone wanted to bitch about Ahri they'd say "These goddamn beefactories just abuse their OP POS freelo bitch."

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