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.
Deny Vayne the opportunity to pin you against walls.
Vayne is fragile - turn the pressure up on her and she will be forced to play cautiously.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several valuable Ahri vs. Vayne counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vayne’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Vayne..
Ahri usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Vayne. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when trying to fight Vayne, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes a bad counter for Vayne.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate than Vayne, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Vayne.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vayne. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Vayne matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Vayne. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Vayne.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to counter Vayne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Vayne. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Ahri versus Vayne build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ahri incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Vayne than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 48.2% when playing against Vayne with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Vayne as Ahri, you should use 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 sets we have analyed for Ahri vs Vayne face-offs, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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