Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
The stats provided here feature several vital Soraka versus Ahri matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ahri. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Soraka usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Ahri. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Soraka usually fairs equally well when facing off against Ahri, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Soraka makes an ok counter to Ahri.
While Soraka does have a higher win rate compared to Ahri, when facing one another, Soraka also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Soraka into Ahri.
Furthermore, Soraka also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This 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 Soraka vs Ahri matchups, Ahri is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Soraka is a decent counter to Ahri. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Soraka against Ahri.
To learn all of the intricacies of Soraka in order to counter Ahri 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka most often accumulates a lot less CS as Ahri. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Soraka versus Ahri build consist of Redemption, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Soraka used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Ahri than with most other typical builds. In fact, Soraka boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Ahri with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Ahri as Soraka, Soraka players should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Soraka vs Ahri battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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