Talk:Ahri/@comment-8969250-20161228235950/@comment-4091261-20170106224640

I dunno, as blunt as the statement is, there are good reasons for the belief. does handle her counters very well while countering a great many champions herself.

I don't know how people can't see just how powerful sustain is. She can easily multiply the heal on by 15 if she just freezes the lane, giving her a potential 45  heal right at level one. The ratio for that heal is literally the same as  at first rank. The fact that her passive compares to the monstrous healing of is flabberghasting given its reliability.

That level of healing pretty much anhilates the notion of poking her out of lane. That alone easily compensates for her lacking damage output since that's the main tactic of mid laners in general: poke and destroy. This allows to easily win her lane by attrition, which bones most mid laners because  is very important in solo lanes.

The main tactic utilized against people who play safe to win through is roaming to destroy the other lanes. However, with the first turret bonus, rarely are the gains from killing champions in other lanes worth tremendous damage taken by the mid lane turret. Unless there is coordination with the jungler swap roles consistently in order to prevent mid lane from just getting destroyed for free, this causes a skew in the favor of.