How To Play The Early Game

Ashe has a decent early game depending on what match up she is against. Looking at the match ups section of this guide or the threats section will be a key in telling you how to play the lane.

Against Heavy Poke

Try to buy a Doran's Shield to negate the damage coming from the enemy bot lane. You have to play it patient and farm under turret until you find a opening to engage on them. Don't fall behind on farm or your in trouble, since you need to be at a decent level to survive the mid game. The enemy bot lane may overextend or get close to your turret, allowing your jungler to have a clear gank, which may turn the lane around for you.

An Easy Lane

In an easy lane, you'll want to poke as much as possible, Try to aim your W at the middle of a minion wave, and try to get the arrows on the side of your volley to hit your enemy. You'll obviously want to start Doran's Blade since it gives you a good amount of damage. Don't overextend or stay behind a tower for long, this will allow the enemy jungler to flank you from behind, which will set you behind. If you get them behind turret, try to poke them out so they panic and miss farm, since they need to concentrate on farming, which can give you a CS advantage.

If your support is throwing or YUUMI

Play it like a poke lane, and try not to engage since they will probably get fed over your support positioning. Try to buy some sustain like Refillable Potion or even Corrupting Potion so you can survive at least.

How to play the Mid Game

Yeah mid game is what decides the game, it's were everyone starts to fight and you have those ARAM skirmishes. Stay in the back line and try to poke them out with your Volley since it has a low cooldown time. Use your ultimate Enchanted Crystal Arrow when they are all bunched together to guarantee you a win in the teamfight. Use your Q to kite in case they try to flank you from behind. Put pressure on every lane by pushing waves in or destroying towers to help you with match pressure.

How to play the late game

The late game is where you need to be careful, since champions like Jhin or Miss Fortune heavily out damage you, so try not to take 1v1's with them and stay in the back line. You are an auto-attacking machine and you can kite just about any tanks ( Ornn or Sion). A lot of adc's that crit heavily can easily one shot you or blow your health to shreds. Try to use your utility and stay in the back line to help your team win teamfights. Use your ultimate to hit multiple enemies to give your team a chance to inflict damage.

Runes

Lethal Tempo

Lethal Tempo is one of the best runes for Ashe because of the amount of burst you have with your Q. It can also server as an indicator that your abilities have hit an enemy. For example, if you want to face check a bush, fire your W into it, and if your lethal tempo procs, you know there is an enemy in the bush.

Presence of mind.

Presence of mind is great because Ashe usually uses a lot of mana in the early game, it allows your mana to be restored when you kill a champion, this can allow you to kill the enemy bot lanes support for example, and the mana restoration means you can chase the second enemy, possibly getting another kill.

Alacrity

Alacrity is good since it gives you some attack speed that scales as you play the game, which lets you get to the cap quickly.

Coup De Grace

Allows you to execute enemeies when they get away with barely any health. Let's say the support gets away with 20 health and backs under tower, just out of reach of your w, well you can flash w, and you'll instantly kill him/her because of the execute.

Free Boots

Speaks for itself, free boots that save you 300 gold.

Approach Velocity

Gives you extra movement speed so you can stick to the enemy and slow them with your passive, basically securing you a kill.

This chapter I'll basically be showing you the hardest Ashe matchups and how to play against them.

Twitch

You may be wondering, 'but you put him in 'even' on the matchups thingy', yeah I did, because if you play against him right you can win easily. Twitch usually needs an enchanter support since he has a lot of poke. People tend to build nashor's on him, which gives him some AP, which will destroy you. Try to poke him a lot in the early game, get your support to harass him as much as you can. Don't take extended trades at level 6 unless you know he is slow or he has already used his ultimate. IF you want to take the trades, then let him use his ulti first, then stun him and try to chunk him down with your Q. Unless you are fed I wouldn't want to fight him when he as his ulti up. Basically just try to snowball before he out scales you.

Tristana

Yeahhhh this is gonna be a scary match up at level three, since she can straight up cheese you in a bush, and if you try to get away she just jumps onto you, slaps her E on your head and Q's you down (which is a speed up like yours). She can essentially one shot you at level three, much like Samira, so try to harass her out of lane pre level 3 so you can gain an xp advantage and take her down. You can clamp her down with your ultimate, which is one of your only ways of chasing her, but if you take Approach velocity, you can Volley her to activate your passive to narrow her escape.

Samira

Everyone's favourite champion. She has a katarina ult, but she can move around and it gives her lifesteal and it has no cooldown and she can also destroy you at level three and take no damage in return an-
Yes, as you can see, she is a pretty unbalanced champion is what I am trying to say, and yes, she CAN burst you down at level three, she can gain lane prio at all stages of the game against you and she scales really well. I ban her 100% of the time, which is surprising considering Jhin and Kai'Sa are considered more broken. To lane against Samira, I recommend harassing her at level three much like you would with a tristana, and try to pressure her as much as you can. The only good thing about this matchup is that any support that you have (yes, even Yuumi) since you need healing, you need protection and a support like a Pyke is good for maintaining pressure on her. If you don't have a Pyke like support, play extremely safe, and when you get poked or burst down, you'll have some sustain to carry on csing.

If you have any champion you want me too add to this chapter, just tell me, and I'll consider it.

In this Chapter I'll be going over the mythic items, what scenarios they're good in, and if they're good on Ashe.

Kraken Slayer

Probably the best Mythic In the game beside Sunfire Aegis. It gives every adc a vayne w, which allows you to shred tanks every third auto. This is great news since it synergises so well with Ranger's Focus. It's good against a very tanky team or if you are extremely fed. Ashe usually plays this item even if there is one tank on the enemy team, and if they don't really have any burst I would just settle for this item.

Immortal Shieldbow

This Item is great for survivability and sustain, since it's passive saves you from high burst damage, especially in the early game. It provides life steal, which is great since you can build into a Blade of the Ruined King and Bloodthirster for insane sustain.

Galeforce

Galeforce allows you to dash forwards a small amount and deal magic damage, much like a rocket-belt. It's stats aren't too bad, it gives a good amount of attack speed and damage. The mobility you get from this item gets rid of Ashe's worst weaknesses, which is a lack of mobility. I recommend if you are against a team with a lot of skill shots that need to land.

CONGRATS

You got through my guide, well done. Your reward is...I mean hopefully you know a lot more about Ashe now, that's reward enough. Special thanks to Wicked Cherry for the banners, you should check her out in the art corner section of the community forums! Thanks again, good luck out there summoner.