Ahri vs Caitlyn
How to Beat Caitlyn as Ahri
based on 11,352 Ahri vs Caitlyn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Caitlyn Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Caitlyn as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Caitlyn
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Caitlyn
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
Ahri vs Caitlyn Counter Stats
How to Counter Caitlyn with Ahri in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several valuable Ahri vs. Caitlyn counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Caitlyn’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Caitlyn..
Ahri typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Caitlyn. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Caitlyn
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Who is Better, Ahri or Caitlyn?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when trying to fight Caitlyn, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a bad counter to Caitlyn.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate than Caitlyn, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Caitlyn.
Moreover, Ahri also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Caitlyn. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Caitlyn matchups, Caitlyn is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Caitlyn. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Caitlyn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Caitlyn. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Ahri versus Caitlyn build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri used at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Caitlyn than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when countering Caitlyn with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Caitlyn as Ahri, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Ahri vs Caitlyn face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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