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.
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
The Ahri Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ahri sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lucian. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lucian helps Ahri perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ahri plays on the same team as Lucian, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Lucian provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Ahri is played together with Lucian on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Lucian.
Moreover, when Ahri plays with Lucian on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Lucian does a poor job of covering Ahri in team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Ahri that will no matter what be her top ally. However, overall, Lucian is a not very good companion for Ahri. By locking into the same team as Ahri, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 46.9%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Ahri and Lucian that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Lucian has a greater difficulty than Ahri. That means Ahri players should be careful when enlisting Lucian allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Ahri players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Ahri and Lucian together, you may not be granting your other allies very much engage potential. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Lucian ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to pair well with Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Ahri and Lucian synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Ahri bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Lucian than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 46.9% helping carry Lucian with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Ahri players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
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