So, here's an overview of which summoners you can take on Ahri. You should always run Flash for very obvious reasons. Then we also have the situational spell options that you can go for. These are Teleport and Ignite.

Slot 1		Slot 2
Always		Of Course		Situational

Personally a big fan of this rune due to its ability to provide you with lots of lane control.

Pretty self-explanatory, it'll give you some trinket haste once you pick up a few kills and assists.

Extremely underrated rune as it provides you with lots of initial ultimate haste along with more each time you gain unique takedowns. Absolutely needed for a champion that is so reliant on her ultimate Spirit Rush and uses it so frequently.

Can't stress enough how good this rune is. Amazing for mana sustain especially for early mana struggles.

If you're opting to scale, this can be very strong for that extra free ability haste.

An underrated and sometimes underused rune if you're trying to go for lane control. This is because the entire purpose of picking the rune is to poke and trade with the opposing laner due to the burn effect that it's able to provide.

Helps significantly with sustain while in lane and is a good aid against heavy poke matchups.

Gives a lot of summoner spell haste that's useful for reducing important cooldowns (e.g Teleport).

Her most common standard item as it provides a lot of durability and overall laning power since Ahri is quite squishy. It's just an overall good purchase to survive the lane and should always be opted for no matter what.

This is the most common potion to go together with Doran's Ring. It'll always be able to give you enough health back to sustain yourself during the laning phase and isn't really ever a terrible buy no matter what you decide to do.

The usual starting trinket. It helps with getting early vision and will always be a generally good choice. It'll be able to provide vision for you throughout the early stages of the game in order to help you avoid ganks by the enemy team.

If your team as a whole is behind, it'll be hard to deny or gain vision for an objective etc. if you can't contest it to begin with. In such cases, get Farsight Alteration instead as it provides long range vision and does help you overall when you're not able to face-check anything.

If you're having a real bad time, you can opt to buy this for 400g to get some damage to work with.

Will provide you with some great early ability haste for 250g that you'll be able to use.

Will provide you with some great stats if you really believe you'll be able to snowball your lane.

Early boots will help with dodging skillshots. It will also make it a lot easier to move around the map.

Don't forget to buy extra potions for more sustain in cases of where you absolutely need them to survive.

If you have 75g left, buy one to use for vision in bushes or to prepare for an important objective.

I'm a big fan of these boots and I essentially build these in 90% of my games. These are just a very comfort type of a pick to choose from as it gives you that necessary magic penetration to really start dealing some huge amounts of damage throughout the game.

If you win the Feats of Strength and gain the ability to upgrade your Sorcerer's Shoes to these boots, you definitely should as your final item. These boots will provide some more movement speed but also even more magic penetration than you could ever imagine, it shouldn't be passed up.

Any games where I'm not running Sorc's I build these instead. This is because Lucidity boots provide a lot of haste that you would have a harder time getting elsewhere, it's extremely useful in builds where you're heavily lacking said haste (e.g. RoA).

If you win the Feats of Strength and gain the ability to upgrade your Ionian Boots of Lucidity to these boots, you definitely should as your final item. Ontop of giving more haste, it also just gives you a ton more movement speed to make use of if there are any healers or shielders on your team.

This is the current strongest item that you can run on this type of a burst mage. It provides Ahri with anything she'd ever want, whether that be the stats or the passive but especially the ultimate haste for her ultimate that she's so reliant on using.

A secondary option that can be built if your intent is to scale more effectively while sacrificing damage for said stats. You'll gain a lot of health, mana and ability power from this item over time and in general is a very strong item if you don't want to run Malignance.

Very normally coupled with RoA due to its health, damage over time effects and general usability against tankier opponents. You won't be dealing as much damage overall but you'll be a lot harder to kill and generally more of a nuisance.

A great go-to item you can pick up in most games. Horizon is a very snowbally item that you can almost never go wrong with unless you absolutely require another more defensive item as your 2nd option and if not, you should always run this item.

A very strong burst item you can pick up it into an enemy team composition full of squishy targets. If you feel confident, don't require defensive items and believe that you can carry and burst down targets easily, this item can do absolutely wonders.

If you're looking for early magic pen and damage and is unable to truly snowball the game, you can opt to buy this item. The significant damage increase if champions are below <40% maximum health is very beneficial here to get damage going without sacrificing too much.

This item is a must-have 2nd item against AD matchups that can immediately kill you (e.g. Zed / Talon / Yone). It's also a worthy item to use against ultimates that could otherwise be problematic to dodge (e.g. Chum the Waters).

A very good item to pick up to stack some very early armor against matchups that are extremely annoying to play around + an early zhonya usage.

An incredibly common item to buy at this point just due to how often healing champions are picked & life steal items are bought (e.g. Vladimir / Soraka / Dr. Mundo / Aatrox / Bloodthirster) whilst also providing some offensive damage that you can work with.

Good to buy early if you just really want something to deal with the healing early on. You should sit on this item and only upgrade to Morello last item.

Get this when the enemy team is starting to build a lot of items that give magic resistance. Try to watch out for items like Null-Magic Mantle. Void Staff is a more gold-efficient item than anything else if and only if the enemy has AT LEAST +50 Magic Resistance.

A decent purchase to go for if you're just looking for some very early magic penetration to deal with the enemy and their magic resistances.

Is a great item if the enemy team has an AP assassin, burst mage or another (fed) AP champion (e.g. Annie / LeBlanc). The spellshield can also help you with engaging (safely), as you won't get interrupted by CC immediately after you go in.

Incredible item to buy due to the immense early magic resistance and generaly defensive stats it's able to provide for you.

If you get ahead, you have a stacked dark seal and you believe in yourself, you can take this gamble. If you do manage to keep it stacked you'll be able to do a disgusting amount of damage and you even get extra movement speed on top of that.

Good early buy if you're looking to snowball your lane. It's a gamble so if you believe in yourself and pray, you can definitely try this.

This is the entire reason you're running RoA + Liandry's. This item will provide you that ability power and damage you're lacking so much and will give you even more ability power depending on a % of your health. This means that the more health you have, the more you'll gain from this item.

This item will give you a big boost of AP once you build it and is essential to your build no matter what due to how incredibly strong it is for mages. Get it as your third or fourth item to make the most efficient use of the passive.

If you believe you can snowball your entire lane, isn't in need of any defenses and can carry the game, you can buy this item. You'll find yourself having huge increases in damage and 1shot potentials, sacrificing said defenses you'd have from other items.

A lesser equivalent to Void Staff and cheaper. Void is an overkill item if the entire enemy team is stacking plenty of magic resistance, this item however is very useful to buy if they are stacking MR but not nearly as much. It also provides your team with healing overall.

Game Phases

Combos

Midlane 101

Roaming

Laning Phase

Teamfighting

Jungle Tracking

Tempo

Wave Management

Warding

A decent start for the early stages of the game.

Key points:
- Baited Sylas to go in
- Master Yi came to help
- We get the kill on Sylas
- We push out the wave to the enemy tower
- Now we can both recall

Know when to trade and when to farm! In the earliest stages of the game it's all about competing and trading with your opposing laner. You'll be looking to both farm and trade with your opponent, either by harassing the enemy as they're walking up for minions or just last-hitting your own minions.

Make the wave push towards you! If possible you almost always want to make the wave push towards you, but not into tower. You want to find the middle ground where the wave is almost at your tower - this is because it lets you farm safely whilst removing yourself from getting ganked by the enemy jungler since you're so vulnerable without passive stacks.

Set-up good ganking options! Further elaborating on the previous point, by allowing the enemy laner to push the wave towards you, whether intentionally or unintentionally, it'll give you the ability to freeze it at your side of the lane and thus opens up a lot of really good ganking opportunities for your own jungler.

Objectives, objectives, objectives! - Yes, kills and dragons are still important. But not more than towers. Taking down towers not only provides you gold but also cracks the map wide open. It gives your entire team a lot more room to play with. Always aim to assist your teammates when taking dragons, and try to take down the first midlane tower before moving onto a sidelane to take more towers.

Roaming! Never forget! During the mid game is where you really start to shine, try to look for any ways to roam to either sides of the map and help your other teammates. The further ahead you can get other lanes, the easier it'll be to contest objectives and thus the easier it'll be to win the game.

Sidelaning! One very important part about playing Ahri is that most people tend to forget that she's incredibly good at sidelaning. With your waveclear, you should ALWAYS be sidelaning if there is not an immediate objective or teamfight/skirmish occuring in order to get general gold. This is where you'll be gaining most of your gold/exp and you should always aim to be safe when sidelaning.

Decent portrayal of what to do during the mid stages of the game.

Key points:
- I Teleport to a placed botlane ward
- Due to opponents being low I use Spirit Rush
- I collect 2 kills due to the dive
- Now I can recall while my already fed botlane continues to snowball

Level 1 Trade

Standard Trade

Extended E

All-In

In order to proceed with the laning phase, you must know where the enemy is located to plan out what you intend to do. After all, you cannot kill a laner that is safe and you can't push a wave that isn't in your favor. For this concept to work, you'll need either proper vision set-up and/or even foresight of the enemy jungler & their pathing.

Vision set-up is when you ward camps in advance before the game starts in order to know ahead of time when the enemy jungler will pass by that camp. For example you can ward their Red to see where they start or Wolves/Raptors at 1:30 to check if they pass by it later, limiting where they could possibly be.

Foresight is when you already know the enemy jungler's pathing and where they'll start. To know their pathing, you must think like the enemy jungler. If you were them, where would you start & what would you do? For example, Twitch will mostly always start Red & proceed to get a gank off in a lane afterwards.

There are rare situations to these concepts, which is any high-AoE jungler such as Kayn & Zac, that can start a variety of unpredictable clears. Or there are junglers who likes to steal camps immediately as fast as the first camp such as Nunu & Willump or Ivern. There are also junglers who are fine with starting from either side and doesn't have a specific kind of clear.

It's another term for lane dominance. It's decided by whoever is able to gain control of the lane and aggressively shove it in their favor, basically meaning whoever has the winning lane that can sufficiently waveclear, we can use Vi as the example on the left.

Why does this matter? When your jungler moves into enemy jungle territory or simply contesting scuttle crabs, they're at risk of getting collapsed on by the enemy lanes. However, if you have lane priority, you can effectively back them up first & give them help on their invade. You lose nothing in return for aggressively pushing your lane in your favor whilst the enemy has to choose between losing a minion wave of exp & gold to tower or giving you an advantage such as killing the rival jungler, stealing camps or getting tons of vision for your team.

The things your jungler can do on the map is somewhat of a blockage by the strength of their solo lanes. If the laners can back them up, they can safely proceed with anything they want to do and achieve significant gains & leads with minimal risk of any disadvantages.

Having this said, getting collapsed on when they're in enemy territory does happen way less in lower elos compared to higher elos where both junglers and laners are more knowledgeable.

A win condition are a set of goals that you’re trying to achieve because they represent the best path to attain victory. It guides your thought process & can change as the game goes on. Try to think of it as your Plan A > can lead to Plan B > C and so forth. Achieving these doesn’t always guarantee victory as your opponents will also fulfill their own win conditions. In general, if you follow your win con, you’ll have a higher chance of winning.

Example, you have a Riven that's getting roasted up top whilst your Lucian & Braum is winning their lane at bot. Your win condition is playing safe and getting bot further ahead and continuing to snowball even harder. You should not die or roam top period. She won't get back into the game with ganks alone & you're putting yourself at risk of dying as well. Riven will have to accept that she's weak side, whilst you're making the strong side even stronger and vice versa. Just accept one lane is going to be weak and gank the stronger side instead.

Seeing the win cons in champions is another factor. For example, Draven who is fully centered on dominating the early game into a victory is completely different from a Vayne who is weak and would rather play safe & farm early instead of fighting and wasting time. Seeing these win cons will come with time but it's good to keep in mind.

Getting objectives such as a tower/dragon can also be a very important goal. It'll never guarantee victory but it'll be able to give you a higher chance of reaching it.

Good example of how to utilize "slow pushing", to start up a potential lead.

Key Points:
- I slowly push the wave, only last-hitting minions
- I attempt to zone only due to my champion being stronger
- When Galio engages I use my combo and end up in a very favorable position
- I continue to slowly last-hit all minions due to my health lead
- After enough minions I quickly fast push the next wave and recall

The art of slowly pushing waves towards your opponent's tower whilst harassing the enemy in the process. Slow pushing is mostly used to create big waves and apply pressure - especially against midlane matchups that cannot contest it and risk the chance of losing multiple waves of minions in the process.

What does it do? This form of manipulation will allow your minions to take much less damage compared to the enemy minions, and as a result, your minions will be able to slowly push the wave to the enemy tower. This is because your minions will last longer and not die quickly because they will always have the numbers advantage over the enemy.

Why is it important? Slow pushing is a term that is used in this sense of gameplay because your minions will – even with the numbers advantage, still take some time to kill the enemy minions. When you're not able to freeze the wave, you want to deny as much gold/exp as you're able to from the opponent and slow pushing waves is a great concept to accomplish just that.

A good example of how to utilize "fast pushing". Pushing waves fast to accomplish good recalls for yourself.

Key Points:
- I Teleport back to lane
- I clear my wave already at tower
- I quickly shove the next wave while Zed has recalled
- I go to ward for potential ganks when the wave is shoved

Fast pushing is a form of manipulation that is used to create immediate and attention seeking behavior that needs to be addressed quickly by the enemy. Without this, enemies could take liberty and be gone for a long time without missing much. Fast pushing is used to force the enemy to make split decisions that may not be fully thought through.

In order to push a wave fast - you need to kill all the minions as quickly as you possibly can. You should look to use your auto attacks as well as your abilities to make the wave clearing much quicker to perform and make use of.

Pushing waves requires only one thing - more minions. The more minions you have compared to the enemies, the faster and more powerful the push will be. If you're clearing every minion the enemy has and only yours remain, they'll push very quickly to the opponent's tower.

A good example of how you can utilize "freezing". Both setting up a freeze and maintaining it.

Key Points:
- I freeze the wave at my tower
- Enemy has 8 minions, I have 7
- I only last-hit minions when they're low
- I zone Galio away from farm, making him lose cannon
- I only trade with him when he mispositions and walks up to farm
- I gain a very easy kill due to level 6 spike
- Now I can transition quickly to a fast push

Freezing is one of the more complicated types of manipulation to perfect as it requires a lot more work because you have to constantly manipulate the wave in your favor whilst keeping an eye on your opponents. When freezing, you want to be able to zone the enemy off the farm and make them overextend if they want to get any farm.

If you want to freeze the wave - all you need to do is have at least 4+ enemy minions comparative to yours and last-hit the enemy minions at the last possible second. Sounds simple right? Well…it’s going to get a bit more complicated. Whenever the enemy damages a minion through either auto attacks or ability use outside of last-hitting, you will need to match their damage. This is because your allied minions will die quicker as they have less health and as a result, the enemies wave will be pushing towards you.

Due to having to match the damage - all the minions will die at roughly the same time which prevents the wave from pushing in either direction – thus creating the freeze. If you didn’t match the damage, or you start randomly auto attacking the minions, then the wave will not freeze and instead start pushing in a direction you may not like. Attack too little, and the wave will push against you. Attack too much, and it’ll push towards the enemy.

Welcome to the matchup section. Below is a table depicting the difficulties of the matchups. Please keep in mind that these difficulties are solely based on my opinion. Matchup difficulty also depends on your skill and the skill of the opponents.

Champion

Difficulty

Aatrox

Akali

Akshan

Anivia

Annie

Aurelion Sol

Aurora

Azir

Brand

Cassiopeia

Corki

Diana

Draven

Ekko

Ezreal

Fizz

Galio

Gangplank

Garen

Gragas

Heimerdinger

Hwei

Irelia

Jayce

Kai'Sa

Karma

Karthus

Kassadin

Katarina

Kayle

LeBlanc

Lissandra

Lucian

Lux

Champion

Difficulty

Malphite

Malzahar

Mel

Morgana

Naafiri

Neeko

Orianna

Pantheon

Qiyana

Renekton

Riven

Rumble

Ryze

Seraphine

Smolder

Swain

Sylas

Syndra

Taliyah

Talon

Tristana

Tryndamere

Twisted Fate

Twitch

Veigar

Vel'koz

Vex

Viktor

Vladimir

Xerath

Yasuo

Yone

Zed

Ziggs

Zilean

Zoe