A moderate buff to Ahri back in 26.3 skyrocketed her to the top of the mid lane pool and pushed her power a bit too far. Her overall waveclear is quite powerful right now, so we're targeting her Q's base damage as it could stand to lose some power.

As the new season has shaken out, Ahri is performing worse than last year and worse than she ought to. Now that she's back on high burst builds, we're reverting a nerf from her “Rod of Ages every game” phase of her K-pop career. Some artists just fall off, you know?

Our latest buff to Ahri didn't get her quite as high up as we'd hoped, so we're back to deliver some more damage. We're juicing up her W when used to pick off an individual target to reward her for landing autos, E, or generally just properly isolating her opponents.

Ahri is statistically fairly weak right now, so we’d like to give her an edge in aggressively diving into the enemy team, risking her life for the resets.

Ahri’s been a pro staple for quite some time now due to her mobility and blind pick capabilities. We want to bring her more in line with other mid lane picks going into MSI, so we’re reducing the rate of her playmaking with R so she has to play a bit more deliberately when looking to make picks and also tapping down the efficacy of E max second which has dominated Pro.

We're making some Ahri adjustments aimed at weakening her currently popular and overperforming Rod of Ages + Liandry's build and we'd like to push her toward optimally building high-threat AP burst. We're generally increasing AP ratios and devaluing level scaling, with a reduced armor pool making the bonus HP less significant overall.

Ahri is underperforming a bit so we’re here to give her a bit of help. We’re playing up her ability to assassinate, as her backline access is relatively unique among mages and we think that’s a good strength to lean into. So we’re amping Charm’s rank-up and AP ratio to make her more threatening to isolated targets. We know she typically maxes it last, but this better rank-up may make it worthwhile to prioritize in specific scenarios, meanwhile the AP ratio will still be nice to have, even if it’s left at rank 1.

With the removal of Everfrost, Ahri lost a lot of the reliability an additional root could create and the durability the item provided. We want to give her power back in some more exciting aspects of her kit, so we're increasing the damage of her Q for two reasons. First, when it came down to more reliability versus more damage, we thought Ahri players would appreciate more potent damage. Second, being able to land both parts of her Q also rewarded more skill expression. We're also giving her a bit more health so she can afford to take some damage while she's kiting around fights with her ultimate.

While she saw a lot of time in the spotlight last season, Ahri disappeared when her mains needed her most, partly because of the nerfs she saw going into Worlds. Even after one buff she’s still having a hard time keeping up with her competition, struggling to find positive trades or use her Spirit Rush aggressively. We’re slightly increasing her base durability so she has an easier time in lane before roaming like the free fox she is.

Ahri's Charm nerf back in patch 12.17 left her a little on the weak side, so instead of making her MORE charming again, we're opting to increase her damage output over CC potential.

Ahri has been charming pros across the globe with her safe playstyle and strong ability to set up plays. We're bringing these strengths down just a tad so that playing into Ahri isn't such a tail order and that players can’t just rely on her charm as a singular strength.

Ahri's been getting a lot of play time since her update. She's incredibly consistent at making picks and assassinating carries, all while remaining relatively safe and just out of reach. We're lowering the uptime on her CC and dashes to add more thrill to the chase.

While we’re happy that players are charmed by Ahri’s refresh in 12.3, she’s been a little too strong since. We’re pulling some power out of her early game to reduce her overall strength.

Ahri's unique identity as a highly-mobile mage assassin has eroded over the years. Instead of a being flighty terror dashing across a teamfight, she's limited to a single attempt at an exciting play with her R, then fishing with her E from safety for the rest of the fight. To address this, we're refreshing her passive to offer a partial ultimate reset upon takedowns so a well-played Ahri can capitalize on favorable situations to hunt down the entire enemy team. We've also redistributed her abilities’ mana costs and early damage so each spell feels rewarding. To balance things out, we're slightly nerfing her burst damage and defensive stats. (As an aside, these changes are unrelated to Ahri’s upcoming ASU.)