User blog comment:KarasuGamma/Ahri's Nonexistent Role/@comment-6187671-20130410202148/@comment-4442345-20130410204104

Ahri does have some damage, just most of it is tied into her ultimate. If she had the burst, and she already does what she does from a decent range she would be redic.

You can't have everything. Imagine Brand with a blink/dashing move. It would be over-the-top and essentially gamebreaking. Brand already has high burst with AOE potential, his weakness is that he isn't very mobile. Ahri is very mobile and as a result should do less. It just makes sense. (Granted Brand isn't the best example, all the movement stuff in the game now has kinda sent his popularity downward and his difficulty up.)