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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stats shown here highlight some vital Ahri vs. Lissandra matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Lissandra..
Ahri typically has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when facing off against Lissandra, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes an ok counter to Lissandra.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate than Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Lissandra.
Moreover, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Lissandra. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Lissandra.
To truly master Ahri in order to counter Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Lissandra. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Ahri versus Lissandra build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Lissandra than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 49.7% when playing against Lissandra with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Lissandra as Ahri, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Ahri vs Lissandra counters, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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