User blog comment:KarasuGamma/Ahri's Nonexistent Role/@comment-4979970-20130410201703

ahri's low cooldown fox fire at max level is her bread and butter. With a ryali's and a 4 second fox fire cooldown with blue buff makes you untouchable and makes landing that charm real easy. The way I play ahri is almost a support. I get a rylais and a liandry's and the rylais just sets up single target kills for you team incredibly well. liandry's just for some damage. After that it doesn't really matter what you build, cuz it's true her ratios aren't good nor her base numbers. I only get the liandry's because of her low cooldowns to re-apply the passive, and cuz it stacks with the slow, the magic pen isn't really its purpose.

I agree, her damage is sub par, and without a rylais she has only one cc option. her ult gives her assassin like capabilities, but her damage doesn't support that role.