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.
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some vital Ahri versus Viktor matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Viktor’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Viktor..
Ahri usually has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Viktor. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when trying to fight Viktor, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes a bad counter to Viktor.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Viktor, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Viktor.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viktor. This often 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 Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter for Viktor. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Viktor.
If you would like to truly master Ahri to counter Viktor 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 mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Viktor. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Ahri versus Viktor build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Viktor than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Viktor with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Viktor as Ahri, you should equip 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 that we analyzed for Ahri vs Viktor battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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