Talk:Ahri/@comment-5224716-20150314170021/@comment-25223119-20150315131548

@A.Darkbloom

Hmm.. If your rune set ups are identical to mine then probably its your offensive mastery set ups? But ideally, if you can hit 40 AP by your first recall, which in my memory, is equivalent to a Blasting Wand. Back in S2, it was sufficient to one wave clear caster minions, it should be the same now, hence why I chipped in to answer. If you start with Doran's, and you rush a Fiendish Codex; on paper you should have sufficient AP to wave clear caster minions with one Q application.

As for runes, any health marks/seals/glyphs/quints is pretty old school Ahri lol, at least from my impression. These days almost no one runs health runes simply because full armor/mr runes helps you in surviving trades more than extra health does. For runes, mine is pretty standard across all board.

9 Mpen

9 Armor

9 MR

3 Quints

All because we have stubborn AD Mids. But thanks for asking about the runes though, because you reminded me of my S2 rune page that I feel like bringing up. On my S2 build, I ran 9MPen, 9Mana Regen Seals, mixture of AP per lvl glyphs and MR and flat AP Quints.

If you maintain a passive lane pattern, you should be doing fine. What I tend to do is I create multiple rune set ups for my AP Mids and try them one by one. On Ahri itself, I have about 3-4 Rune Pages simply because she's the only one I play these days. At best, she does well with a very standard AP rune set up but you can always tweak things here and there. I have some friends who prefer putting her on MS Quints or Flat AP Runes on her rune pages and she's still fine.

I think it also boils down to your starting item. Again, because of how stagnant AP starting builds are now. You rarely start with anything but a Doran Ring. But occasionally, I enjoy running boots and potions on her, true S2 style.

And as I was saying, I've been experimenting with a few masteries, runes set up here and there and I find that there is an identical build that mirrors S2 Ahri before she was nerfed. I'm stiill trying to perfect that build, or at least test its consistency.