User blog comment:Care Level/Magic Sword Ahri: A Guide to Nashor's and Lich Bane./@comment-25055281-20150102142255

I'm currently trying to substitute DFG with Lichbane for Ahri, mostly because it allows for more flexible gameplay and the burst is still close.

For example, you can use Lichbane to trade in lane if you rush Shen.

And you become a splitpushing threat, with waveclear and damage to turrets.

It's allways up, instead of once in 90 seconds.

Within the 6 seconds of charm damage amp duration, appart from most of your abilities, there is easily room for 2-3 aa's, wich is plenty of damage, and the barrage sistem of R works well with this too.

If everithing goes perfect, DFG lets you burst sligthy faster, but otherwise I find Lichbane lets me burst more relliably.

On the other hand, Nashor doesn't give much instant damage and you don't need the AS if you plan on weaving abilities between aa's (CDR is good, but if you are allready building Athene or Morello it may be overkill)

As a side note, lategame some assassins fall of a bit because they build just for the 100-0 burst and it becomes more difficult the longer the game goes on (GA, Banshee, Zonia)...Lichbane Ahri may overcome this somewhat.