Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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 stat comparisons shown here underscore some vital Tristana vs. Ahri counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between these two champions. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ahri..
Tristana typically has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Ahri. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually wins when facing off against Ahri, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes a good counter to Ahri.
While Tristana does have a higher win rate compared to Ahri, when facing one another, Tristana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Tristana into Ahri.
Additionally, Tristana has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Ahri matchups, Tristana is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Tristana is a decent counter for Ahri. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Tristana against Ahri.
To truly master Tristana to counter Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ahri. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Tristana versus Ahri build include Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting Ahri than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 51.4% battling Ahri with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Ahri as Tristana, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Tristana vs Ahri clashes, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ahri as Tristana are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.