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.
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
The stats shown on this page show several significant Ahri versus Tristana counter stats that may help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tristana’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Tristana..
Ahri usually has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Tristana. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when trying to fight Tristana, with a 48.6% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes a bad counter to Tristana.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Tristana, when facing one another, Ahri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Tristana.
Moreover, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Tristana matchups, Tristana is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter for Tristana. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Tristana.
To truly master Ahri in order to counter Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average gets a similar amount of CS as Tristana. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Tristana build include Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Tristana than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 48.6% battling Tristana with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Tristana as Ahri, Ahri players 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 chose for Ahri vs Tristana fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% winrate overall.
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