Wild Rift Ahri build guide: Best runes, spells, items, roles, tips and tricks, more

We're just days away from the launch of the League of Legends: Wild Rift Open Beta in Europe and various other regions so its time to look more in-depth at each of the game's characters.

This time we bring you the guide of one of the most famous champions of Summoner's Rift, introduced in 2011, and being one of the main selections of both the middle lane, and of the players in general: Ahri, the Nine-Tailed Fox.

Ahri: Her active and passive skills

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Her passive ability, Essence Thief, allows Ahri to gain a stack when hitting an enemy with any ability. Once she has enough stacks, her orb will change colour, giving her a small heal the next time you hit one of her abilities.

Let's move on to her active skills:

• Orb of Deception: Launches her orb dealing magic damage one way, while on its return it will deal true damage.
• Fox-Fire: Gains a brief movement speed boost and summons three fire projectiles that will follow the closest targets.
• Charm: Blow a kiss that on impact will deal magic damage, immobilizes and attracts the enemy, who will take extra damage from Ahri for a few moments.
• Ultimate - Spirit Rush: Allows her to move forward three times, launching essence bolts that will damage nearby enemies.

Recommended Runes and Spells for Ahri

Ahri is one of the most played and popular champions of the entire game, something that is noticeable in her PC counterpart having good selection and victory ratios since her release, which is why her best runes are more than well known by players:

• Electrocute: Triggers on successful skill combos and trades, dealing bonus damage to affected enemies.
• Brutal: Grants adaptive bonus damage and damage penetration.
• Spirit Walker: Grants bonus health and increased slow resistance.
• Sweet Tooth: Grants additional gold when consuming some Honeyfruit, in addition to increasing its healing effects by 25%.

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Being a burst-focused mage, Ahri is best equipped with spells focused on mobility and aggression, which is why her spells are just as well known as her runes:

• Flash: Since it’s not advisable to use her Ultimate to escape, you must choose it and reserve it for dangerous situations.
• Ignite: One of the primary tools that will help you get more kills during the game when besieging with everything in hand.

The best items for Ahri

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Ahri's item build is focused on two goals: maximizing her cooldown reduction and increasing her explosive damage. The emphasis on cooldown is important as it will allow you to use Spirit Rush, as much as possible.

• Luden's Echo: Grants bonus magic damage from its passive Discordic Echo, and a 10% cooldown reduction.
• Ionian Boots of Lucidity: Increases the cooldown reduction of abilities and summoner spells. It’s recommended to wear them with Stasis Enchant to counter enemy burst damage or Quicksilver for crowd control.
• Infinity Orb: Grants movement speed, magic penetration, and bonus damage against low-health targets.
• Rabadon's Deathcap: Provides the highest amount of AP, so her explosive damage will have a large power spike.
• Void Staff: Grants a tremendous amount of magic penetration.

As additional or conditional options to complete or replace in her composition, we recommend purchasing Gluttonous Greaves, Morellonomicon, Archangel’s Staff, Liandry's Torment or Lich Bane.

Tips for Ahri’s play style

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To start her scaling in a good way, it's important to monitor your mana usage, as well as keep an eye out for stacks of Essence Thief. So when you're in a tight spot exchanging skills and low on health, you can throw your Orb of Deception at the enemy minions and recover a little.

Once you get to level 6, you can try rotating to other lines to assist your allies, in case the enemies are pushing the line and attacking unprepared. It’s also important that you keep an eye to the sides of the centre lane to avoid ambushes when rotating.

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If you have the opportunity to eliminate an enemy, either with the assistance of an ally or alone, try to improve your aim when casting Charm. This way, you can easily hook enemies and leave them low on life or send them to base with the help of her Fox-Fire or even Ignite.

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As we advised before, Spirit Rush can be one of her most important resources since it allows her to catch enemies off guard, and together with the combination of her Orb of Deception and Charm, you can completely eliminate any of them.

However, it’s also important to know how to use it well, since this is an Ultimate, it’s a limited resource, more than anything at the beginning of the game, so you must learn to deduce the opportunities to take advantage of it, either in a team fight, a successful gank or when you have the level advantage.

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With the launch in a few days, it’s more than certain that Ahri will be one of the main selections, so we hope these tips will help you get the most out of one of the most explosive, complete, and above all, famous mages of the Summoner’s Rift.