Talk:Ahri/@comment-26274286-20160128095322/@comment-15280970-20160129060533

There are two ways to understand "safe":

There is the noob´s "safe": Safe champions are those that do not have to be at much risk to do their thing or can easily get out of risk, usually champions with escape mechanisms or good poke to farm from afar. In other words, safe champions are those with a safe kit.

AAAnd there is the statisticall and empiric  "safe" which is much less predictable by bronze theorycrafting 101 and way more noticeable by actually playing games: Safe champions are those that have a consistent performance, that most of the times do the job you expect them to do. I like to call them "momentum champions", and you can easily recognize them by having a high win rate and pick rate. From this point of view, safe champions are safe picks.

An example: Season 4-5 Jinx vs Season 4-5 Caitlyn. Looking at those kits, caitlyn seems to be far more safe than Jinx, because cait has a longer range and an escape with self peel. However, 80% of the games Caitlyn would just be some laning phase annoyance that would evolve into a 0 damage AD carry. Jinx instead would almost always be a constant menace, getting fed most of the times either laning or in teamfights and always dealing good damage. So while Caitlyn had a safer kit, everyone wanted jinx on their team because Jinx was a safer pick.

For me, Ahir falls into both categories of safe. She´s a safe pick that can afford any situation, has poke, sustain, good escapes, even if she´s skillshot based her W and Ultimate allow her to easily get low health targets without great precision.