For a while I played mainly Ahri mid because she was fun to play, but I never had a lot of success with her. I assumed I was just bad at playing mid, but then I switched to Cassiopeia when Season 2 ended and have had significantly more success since.
I decided to try Ahri again tonight and finding my problems had not changed - I still found her damage output rather weak, given her long cooldowns, and her skillshots are very easy to avoid.
Any advice on how to improve my Ahri game, or should I just stick with Cassiopeia?

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Ahri is my main mid for the longest time. If you need anymore help add me and we can discuss other stuff

You have to land her combo, she in essence is a high risk high reward champ. If you can land charm, pop Fox Fire then Q through them. Its a lot of damage, but you have to get Q to pass through them both times that were a lot of the damage is at since its true damage.

In team fights you want to try and hit a champ out of position with your charm, pretty much be an insta kill or a forced initiation from the other team which your team can capitalize on.

When going into a team fight position is key with you Q try and get it to pass through as many champs as you can, remember both in and out. Then pop Fox Fire and dive in with ulti, its a huge amount of damage. Dive through the team one more time, or hit zhonya's if you are getting focused, then dive back out of the team fight. By that time Q and fox fire should be back up and and lite them up again.

I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!

Hey, I'm a n00b and only lvl 14 but Ahri is the only champ i can do ok with, if you look at my stats i'm still pretty **** and new to PvP but i feel i am getting the grasp of her

What i do is start with Boots and 3 Mana potions, i choose mana potions over health because i can usually keep enough distance between myself and the mid to not take too much health.

i start by farming as hard as i can and getting as much $$ as possible.. if Mid gets too close to me i will Q them through the minions to get some hits on minions and to harrass the mid

Once i have enough money i'll go back and get either 2 doran rings or start build towards a Hat or Rod
or i will get my sorcerer boots

i ALWAYS take Q lvl 1 and E lvl 2 and then W lvl 3 then max Q

if i can see my team mates close and reaady to gank i'll get a charm off then q and W right away .. usually this takes them below half HP depending how much they had, then my team finish her off

when i have a full combo i will Charm, then Q and W and then ult 3 ties if needed to get the kill.. if they run towards tower i'll keep 1 ult to escape.. so i'll hit 2 ults chasing into tower range if i know it will kill them and use last ult to get out

in team fights i do the same.. target a Champ.. full rotation on them and then last ult to get behind my team as i'm squishy

i used to be terrible with Ahri but i am starting to get more Kills and assists than deaths now.. i have played Ahri in Mid, top and Bot.

Top and Bottom i find to be good with the Brush and the Charm to get them in range of team mates and can usually pull off the kill.

in mid i'll watch the map, if they are out of position in Bot and Top i'll go there sand usually team will do enough damage so that when they retreat past me my combo will finish them off.. then back to mid.


I Love Ahri and she is my fav champ.. although i also play Brand and Twisted Fate and really starting to like Diana but Ahri will always be my main

i also have the Firefox Ahri skin so everyone tells me how hot i look.. this is true

EDIT:
** if the mid is playing passive and then Really starts getting aggressive i usually retreat, if i follow through with being aggressive back i usually find they are being aggressive because there is a gank ready for me in brush

i usually take Ghost to get away and Flash for retreats aswell