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Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Ability Order
Essence Theft (PASSIVE)
Ahri Passive Ability
Introduction

Welcome to my Ahri Guide!
This guide is my first guide on Mobafire and it's as mentioned in the title about Ahri - The 9 Tails Fox. Before you read my guide please take a look at these short notes:
- I'm not a pro player and i don't say that this guide is the perfect one for Ahri
- I love criticism, but please be polite
- This guide is ideal for you if you want to play Ahri in ranked mid - it may work for other roles too, but this is only for mid.
I play Ahri in ranked, i reached gold at the moment. I played about 172 games with her, and my win ratio is 66.3%.
If you like this guide vote for it and leave a comment. If you don't like this guide leave a comment too. Thank you!

Positive:
+ High amount of skill shots, that means a lot of fun
+ Unbelievable strong ganks with her ult
+ A range taunt
+ An ultimate which can be usefull in nearly every situation
+ In my opinion the most detailed champion model in the game. She is just pretty!
+ Excellent farmer
Negative:
- She loses all mobility if her ultimate is on cooldown
- If you spam your skills too hard, you will be oom with the speed of light
- Squishy, as the most of the burst AP casters are
- Gets banned a lot

In this build i use my runes to get the most out of my early game. In midlane you will have to harase your enemy a lot and you maybe become ahead with a first blood or some kills. Also the midlane is very easy to gank for the junglers. This can be seen as positive point - if your jungler ganks - or as negative if the enemy jungler ganks. This runeset will give you enough damage to ensure a kill when your jungler ganks, even without hitting your


Magic penetration is always usefull on champions like Ahri. Ability power is your main source of damage, and with magic penetration you increase your damage percental.
Greater Seal of Replenishment
Ahri needs mana to work, and the amount of mana that is given to her can sometimes make you cry. With these runes your mana problems in early won't be so hard. You can replace these seals with for example



Damage is what we need, damage is what we get with nine of them. You can try


In case of Quints I prefer to use



At all you have to decide what you prefer in runes - also it depends on the enemy you are going to lane against. I hope i helpeld you a bit with my choices.

I go for a 21/0/9 in Masteries. There is nothing special, so i will just comment the most important points.










With the recent changes on Ahri (Patch v1.0.0.140) she doesn't get really nerfed. After taking a look at some calculations i can confirm that Riot achieved their goal to make her stronger in late, and a little bit weaker in the early game.
Now it gets interesting: Why do i max w first? Let's take a look at the scaling of Ahri's abilities.


Well, thats not such a high difference.




And that is badass. Most of the time you will use Ahri's ultimate to get close to your enemy, then you will press






I max













Start Items you will mostly buy:
Most champions you'll face in mid have at least 1 skill shot, and there is nothing better for dodging skill shots than boots. Also the 3 pots will give you some surviability for your lane.
Against champions without skill shots:
Sadly they exist, Champions who don't have a single skill shot. Some examples for that are



For more damage:
I don't really recommend to start with this, but if you are sure you don't have to be scared of ganks or your enemy, you can upgrade this build fast to


Core Items:
This build is mainly designed to reach maximum burst with Ahri. You will deal tons of damage using this build, and because of the magic penetration there is nearly no way to avoid it. If you want to relinquish on some damage you can replace the




















This part of the guide is very long. You can skip it and only read the parts you will need when you meet your mid. I only write something about champs who can play mid, cause this guide is mostly for ranked games.












































































































































































- Farm is one of the biggest keys to win. Ahri has a very nice animation of her autohits, it will be easy to land them with her. Also your
Orb of Deception is a good way to last hit at your tower, or when a lot of minion have low health.
- Of couse you want to play
Ahri most of the time in ranked. But if someone picks a mid champ before you are able to pick
Ahri you have to get on with it. If you are 5th pick you may have to support - ask if the 1st pick can choose
Ahri for you and swap, otherwise play what the team wants you to play. You want to win, and they want to win too, so dont flame and be polite.
- Try to get Blue Buff with her all time! Sometimes there are junglers who may want the 2nd and maybe even the 3rd Blue Buff like
Amumu or
Maokai. You'll have to accept that, it won't make it better if you start flaming them.
- Never facecheck bushes - you can use your
Charm for it.
- As you are pretty squishy you want to stay behind your tanks in teamfight and never initiate
- It is your job as mid to ward at least the second left bush (the entrance to your jungle). If your jungler is good he will ward the right side for you, if not buy 2 Sight Ward. They will help you a lot, who doesn't want to be nearly complete safe of ganks?

Thank you for reading my guide! I hope this text will help you with this wonderfull champion, and you will have as much fun with her as me. You can send me screenshots of some of your games with this build - i will put them into this guide. If you like the guide leave a comment and vote, do the same even if you don't like it as i mentioned in the introduction.
Changes:
02/12/12 - Guide was created
03/29/12 - Changed Ahri against... Annie and Swain ; Added Lulu ; some minor changes
03/30/12 - Build order a bit changed, WotA before Deathcap and more
08/31/12 - Checked for validity, will do some changes soon but everything here is ok.
Sources and Credits
Ahri image in the header by http://tekkanomaki-chan.deviantart.com/
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