Hey guys I'm Shok, multi Rank 1 Challenger mid laner and content creator! I played league professionally from 2017-2021 and have been rank 1 in multiple seasons, as well as rank 13 on the NA ladder in season 9.

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The laning phase on Ahri will differ quite a lot depending on if you are vs a melee or a ranged champion.

Vs ranged:

Against ranged champions most of your trades will either come from hitting them with a max range Q when they go for a last hit, or by using W to dodge a skillshot and then trading with autos + electrocute. Generally Ahri loses to other ranged champs pre 6, but post 6 you have great gank setup and eventually you will have enough waveclear to just push and move around the map. If you're in a very hard ranged matchup focus mainly on dodging skillshots and utilize your sustain + waveclear in order to survive. As long as you don't die you should still be very useful in the midgame even in hard counter matchups.

Vs melee:

Vs melee champions you can abuse lane early with lots of W harass and auto attacks. Against most melee champions you will need to hold your charm defensively as they may want to move into you and force a trade. Be careful being pushed up far in the lane pre 6 as you leave yourself very vulnerable to getting chased down. Again once you hit 6, you should be able to play normally and either force them under tower or look for skirmishes.

In the mid game as Ahri you will want to do your best to continue to keep up your gold/xp while also being at all the major objective fights. The best way to do this is try shove the side wave as far as you can without dying. If you don't have TP up, it can be a good idea to group with your team instead and just catch sidewaves when they are going to crash on your tower until your TP comes back up. If your sidelane matchup is really easy + your team is winning and you have vision then sidelaning should be very easy, if the opposite of these things are true then you will need to be a lot safer on side.

For objective fights, it's a good rule to try and base around 1 minute before dragon spawns, that way you can spend all your gold and get all your hp and mana back to full. This will give you the best possible chance of grouping up and winning a dragon fight.

Ahri not very good at taking jungle camps, but if you get priority on the side you can easily collapse mid and make a play, or sometimes you might be able to take a sidelane tower with lich bane if you feel safe enough.

For Ahri's teamfighting/skirmishing the main thing you need to think about is how you are going to guarantee hitting your charm and who are the most important targets. You can normally guarantee a charm by ulting forward into closer range or by using the E flash combo. You can also follow up on other people's CC if that lands first. Try have a good idea of who the highest value targets are, it's always worth charming a tank for a chunk but it may not be worth flash ult charming them over an adc for example.

You can also cleanup fights pretty easily with your ultimate, if you can find a flank or if your team engages onto theirs you can easily follow up by dashing in and using your resets to get out or reposition afterwards.

You may also want to think about which abilities are most threatening and how to avoid them. For example, if the enemy team still has stuff like thresh hook, lissandra ult, malphite ult etc you will need to either wait for these to be used or be ready to avoid them when you go engage. Sometimes it is best to just play to be the secondary engage once some of the cooldowns are out of the way.

That's all for this guide, but if you want to see more of my Ahri content there is a video guide and several gameplay videos on my YouTube channel, and if you want to ask me questions about Ahri feel free to drop by my Twitch or send me a message on discord (shokoce)