Talk:Ahri/@comment-6061249-20150529133548

Ahri is on par with Xerath in terms of chances to dodge her abilities, with Charm being the only healthy ability in her kit.

My guess is that they just wanted to give her an unique feeling from other mages, giving her a strange movement boost pattern, which itself is okay, just wasn't compensated with a nerf huge enough. In overall, they had a good idea, they just forget about what kind of a champion they are applying it to. Ahri already has two autotargeted abilities with huge damage, i don't understand how the Orb, her main poke ability is so wide it doesn't even match its visuals while being really fast, it basically ends up with Xerath scenario - dodging it by sidewalking becomes a game of predictions.

Riot doesn't make people buy more skins by leaving champions disbalanced. Hell, i even recall few cases where nerfs actually ended up in increasing attention drawn around given champion. In fact, if Riot releases a skin "for horny nerds", they will purchase it without giving a single f- about champion's powers.

You can make any champion popular, just give it into hands of streamers / tournament players. Skin popularity going up guaranteed. See - Urgot's case.