Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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 underscore several critical Warwick against Ahri matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences between the two. Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ahri’s ratio of NaN, showing that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ahri..
Warwick usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Ahri. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Warwick usually fairs equally well when playing against Ahri, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Warwick makes an ok counter for Ahri.
While Warwick does have a lower winrate than Ahri, when they face off with one another, Warwick also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Warwick into Ahri.
Additionally, Warwick also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ahri. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Ahri matchups, Ahri is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Warwick is a somewhat poor counter to Ahri. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Warwick against Ahri.
To learn all of the intricacies of Warwick in order to counter Ahri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Ahri. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Warwick versus Ahri build consist of Trinity Force, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Ahri than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Warwick boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when countering Ahri with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Ahri as Warwick, Warwick players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Warwick vs Ahri fights, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ahri as Warwick are presented for every ranked division. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.