Talk:Ahri/@comment-25223119-20170202191709/@comment-5475313-20170221120333

If proplay is anything to go off of, Ahri is definitely not a high tier pick. As the game's premier mobility mage, she trades off an insanely high amount of burst and teamfight utility for better pick potential and moderate single target burst. She was played in LCS like once this rotation, and compared to the playrates of katarina, corki, and several other midlane mages, she definitely doesn't have what she needs to succeed in a meta so heavily wrapped around teamfight, utility, and the like.

As someone who has played her for literal years, I can tell you that her damage is LOW. Compared to the burst potential of other, "lower tier" midlane mages like Lux and Annie, Ahri needs roughly 1.5 rotations of skills on average in order to assassinate her target 100-0 whereas other burst mages can do it in just 1. Not only that, but you're this delicate little fox trying to dive into an entire enemy team. You can die at any moment, and some people just don't understand that her diving is an opportunity you can try and outplay her since she's using everything she can: her dashes, her main cc, all of her damage tools, to try and kill you. Charm is 1/3 of your mana bar pre-lost chapter, and even with the item, it's still 1/5 of your mana in the early game. No one seems to realize this.

And as PastaFreak said, yes, I can attest that playing Ahri gets you to unconciously read your opponents a lot more frequently and keep track of little nuances like when you can dive in and what CD's they have are down. Because THIS IS HOW YOU SUCCEED AS HER. Not doing so won't get you ahead, and when your damage is already fairly average due to the lower than average scalings on her abilities compared to other mages, it ultimately doesn't help you out in the long run, and you become basically just a CCbot. If you let her harrass you with Q and she dives you at lvl 6 and picks up a kill, that's your own fault. If you DON'T want to let that happen, keep an eye on her CD's and know guesstimate the average length her Q goes. Cause more than likely, the ahri you're facing knows how to get the tip JUST right.