Quints - 3 Greater Quintessence of Ability Power = 14.85 Bonus bonus AP. Early game this is HUGE, and gives you a lot more burst. This is almost as much AP as a amplifying tome.

Marks - 9 Greater Mark of Magic Penetration = 7.83+ Magic Pen. This makes your burst early game better, and it helps throughout the entire match.


Seals - 9 Greater Seal of Armor = +12.69 Armor. Some extra armor on this squishy caster so she doesn't totally melt.

Glyphs - 9 Greater Glyph of Ability Power = + 10.8 AP. This again gives you more early game burst and adds onto the Quints making you quite nukey just with just your runes.


Some other viable runes could be magic resist runes since you will most likely be in lane against another AP champion instead of more AP for glyphs.

With Ahri I always go with Flash and Ignite. I do this because Flash is a great escape (possibly over a wall) or it can be a great gap closer. I chose Ignite because against most mids if you land your Charm, Orb of Deception, fox fire, and Spirit Rush combo you can pop ignite and they should be dead no problem.

Some other options are:

Ghost- good escape and gap closer
Teleport is nice since it allows you to go to base heal and buy items, but i think a good jungle will cover your lane.
Clarity- dont get this
Exhaust- is nice it helps you take damage, but i find ignite to be better on Ahri, just personal preference
Heal- is okay, but if someone really knows what theyre doing it can be countered by Ignite
Barrier- is good only if you are diving into a fight or being focused, but this is not usually a problem if you aren't being foolish and tanking with Ahri

Essence Theft (passive)- Ahri gains a charge of Soul Eater whenever one of her spells hits an enemy (max: 3 charges per spell). Upon reaching 9 charges, Ahri's next spell has 35% Spell Vamp.


Orb of Deception - Ahri sends out her orb, dealing 40/65/90/115/140 (+33% AP) magic damage, and pulls it back dealing 40/65/90/115/140 (+33% AP) True damage.

Base CD: 7 sec
Cost: 70/75/80/85/90 Mana
Range: 880

Fox-Fire - Ahri releases three fox-fires. After a short delay they lock on to nearby enemies (prioritizes champions), dealing 40/65/90/115/140 (+40% AP) magic damage. Additional fox-fires that hit the same target deal 50% damage [max damage: 80/130/180/230/280 (+80% AP)

Base CD: 9/8/7/6/5 sec
Cost: 60 Mana
Range: 800

Charm - Ahri blows a kiss dealing 60/90/120/150/180 (+35% AP) magic damage and charming the first enemy it hits, causing them to walk harmlessly towards her for 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 second(s). (My favorite ability of Ahri's kit)

Base CD: 12 sec
Cost: 50/65/80/95/110 Mana
Range: 975

Spirit Rush- Ahri dashes forward and fires essence bolts at 3 nearby enemies (prioritizes champions), dealing 85/125/165 (+35% AP) magic damage. Spirit Rush can be cast up to three times within 10 seconds before going on cooldown.

Base CD: 110/95/80 sec
Cost: 100 Mana
Range: 450

I think Boots + 2x Health Potion + 1x Mana Potion
My reasoning for this is boots are just a must and help in every aspect of the game, the 2 potions help you sustain and if you use Essence Theft correctly you should sustain fine, and the Mana Potion helps with your early mana problems.

This depends how your lane is going.

Get Sorcerer's Shoes before anything else, the Magic Pen makes you do more damage and gives you mobility.

If you are doing fine in lane I will generally get 1x-2x Amplifying Tome or Hextech Revolver if you have enough gold. 1x-2x Mana Potion and/or 1x-2x Health Potion never hurts, and allows for more time in = more farm = more gold = better items sooner.


Next I generally try to buy a Blasting Wand and Needlessly Large Rod , and build that into Rabadon's Deathcap ASAP. I do this for that HUGE burst. At this point you should be having no trouble bursting down the opposing mid.

If it is still going well I then build my Hextech Revolver into a Will of the Ancients. This is a great item since it stacks on itself giving 80AP total and the bonus spellvamp is great on Ahri, and gives the passive spellvamp and +30 AP to teammeates.

It is as always depending on the match what you build. If you are on a team that is focusing you and melting you down go with Zhonya's Hourglass, but only if you will use its active, which makes you untargetable for 2.5 seconds, and gives 100AP which is a lot.

If you're not being focused and are just melting everyone, build a Deathfire Grasp, and use the active which is great for just melting who ever you target with it. I generally prefer not to use this item, the CD is great and the passive is also, but i prefer a more tanky Ahri

Then build a Rylai's Crystal Scepter, this is great for bonus 80+ AP, 500+ HP, and you get a great passive slow for every ability you cast. Overall a great item for chasing and still dealing more damage.

So your full build on Ahri should go in about this order Sorcerer's Shoes, Rabadon's Deathcap, Will of the Ancients, Zhonya's Hourglass, Abyssal Mask, and Rylai's Crystal Scepter. I build this over the pure glass cannon Ahri because this allows for dishing out a lot of damage and also being able to take some.

Always, always last-hit the minions. It is a waste of gold not to, and if the opposing mid is they will quickly get better items, and most likely dominate you. You can also try to predict when to harass by looking at your minions health knowing which minion they will try to last-hit.

Try to land your Charm, then combo orb of deception, and [[fox-fire. This puts out an enormous amount of damage and will probably leave the enemy at half health.

Do not waste Spirit Rush use it to secure kills or begin a a combo by positioning yourself, or use it an escape from ganks.

Ahri should NEVER EVER ENGAGE, she will quickly be melted and be totally useless.

The only effective way for Ahri to engage is by keeping distance and landing Charm, but try not to hit the enemy tank or bruiser, instead aim for the AD Carry or AP Carry

You should focus on trying to kill off the opposing AP Carry or AD Carry. A great way of doing this is by hitting them with Charm. This is great because it makes it really easy for your team to focus this champion because it draws them out of position and lasts for 2 seconds.

Hit as many enemy champions as possible with Orb of Deception, and don't forget to use Fox-Fire to deal damage too, and this does not take a lot of thinking since it does not need to be aimed

Ahri is exceptional at cleaning up, and finishing off fleeing enemies with Spirit Rush, and Charm, as well as Fox-Fire

Overall I find Ahri to be a great mid lane champ due to her ability to farm and harass with Orb of Deception and provides a great damage output. She also has great sustain from her passive.

She is also useful in any team fight because of Charm and her enormous damage output

her downfalls seem to be weak when caught by CC (As are most champions), and she is just squishy.

Best of luck and thank you for reading my guide.