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.
The stats provided here feature some strategic Ahri against Nilah matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nilah..
Ahri often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Nilah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when facing off against Nilah, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a poor counter to Nilah.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate than Nilah, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ahri into Nilah.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nilah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ahri is a bad counter to Nilah. Focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Nilah.
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nilah. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Nilah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ahri used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Nilah than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when playing against Nilah with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Nilah 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. Of all the runes players used for Ahri vs Nilah clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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