How to Climb with Ahri Guide - Challenger Teaches Me ft. Ahj
Video Overview & Insights
The ultimate Ahri mid lane guide for League of Legends 2026, taught by Challenger player Ahj. Learn the best Ahri build, runes, matchups and mechanics in Episode 1 of Challenger Teaches Me.
This 'Challenger Teaches Me' series will also be on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/1lofAjOVl3aoKoRvfdC82F?si=iBx_XM1iTqeFpXSU2yLKSQ
This complete Ahri guide covers the best Ahri build 2026, Ahri runes, Ahri combos, mid lane matchups, laning phase tips, and team fighting — everything you need to climb with Ahri in Season 16.
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My biggest problem is just autoattacking on ahri it is like so unnatural for me.
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Why does this dude snap his fingers so often?
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How to win with Ahri (my guide) ---> Have teammates that are looking to win along with you
Topics covered:
◼️ Best Ahri build - runes and items
Count the amount of snaps in this video. Over under 300
◼️ Ahri Champion Identity
◼️ Max damage combos
Any thoughts on moving the runes / items section to the end of guides?
This stuff is far less important than trading patterns, champ identity, mid game, basically anything else in the video (as you guys preach on the podcast). I would even go so far as to say it’s totally irrelevant for viewers below high diamond or master, which is many of them.
◼️ Laning and mid game reference points
◼️ Fighting principles with Ahri
i feel so stupid for going shadowflame 2nd every game now....
◼️ Lane matchup tier list
Timestamps:
What´s his perma ban?
0:00 - Who is Ahj?
0:49 - Ahri assassin build
Some people in my elo argue that I need to use charm as my first initiating gameplay - I will go this route of R + W + auto since her E cooldown is so long. TY for the advice!
4:09 - Runes
8:45 - Why Ahri is best as an assassin
This guy reminds me of someone that plays opportunistic
10:02 - Breaking down all Ahri items
22:30 - Practice tool tips and tricks
I just wanna say that I climbed out of the literal depths of ranked (iron 4 0LP) to currently Gold 2 with solo Ahri (Galio if she got pick/banned) and it was WELL worth the journey. It did take much longer than abusing an easy champ would have, but now that I’m starting to cook more and more with her I’m so thankful for all the fundies she taught me and all of the practice I have with her kit.
Extremely fulfilling champ to climb with and I’m only getting started 😎
33:42 - Is Ahri hard to play?
34:45 - Can you blind pick Ahri every game?
I am rlly certain the the build order of maligma > lich > void with pen boots makes no sense. If u invest so much gold into flat pen why build % pen third and not spike with raba. they way it gets reduced with about 30 pen and then apply % u steal yourself ur builds value.
35:18 - What are Ahri weaknesses?
38:20 - Ahri vs Syndra matchup
Neeko was the goat
40:14 - Roaming with Ahri
42:35 - First item spike of the game
Ever since this vid dropped I've seen a massive increase in Ahris in my matches in emerald running Malignance Lich Bane to great effect
45:42 - Does Ahri scale?
47:26 - Fighting with Ahri
bro neeko was the mvp this game not even ahri lmao
54:30 - Side laning as Ahri
57:41 - Lich Bane mindset
Thanks soo much for the video! Ahri is my most played champ so this is really helpful really! Have a nice day everyone!! :3
1:00:04 - Mid game mindset
1:05:15 - Do you care about 10 CSPM?
The Ahkshan match up is dreadful
1:07:25 - Closing out games
1:18:31 - Matchup tier list
Y'all just unlocked 170+ video ideas hell fucking yeah
1:31:40 - Advice on learning Ahri
1:33:16 - Why you should play Ahri
Best Ahri NA!
1:34:17 - Shoutouts
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Syndra vs Ahri I have 60 percent win rate syndra and 48 percent ahri but playin ahri feels easier in that matchup
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If you played a drinking game and took a shot every time my man said 'opportunistic' you'd be hammered in no time😂
Thanks for watching Challenger Teaches Me Episode 1,
Nathan Mott
Sleeping on cosmic drive is crazy, its so good with the Blackfire burn for extended ms uptime
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Thanks so much for this video. Ahri is such an amazing champ for learning discipline. I got so much better at holding abilities and fighting with intention through playing her. I think I improved more with 30 games on ahri than I did in hundreds on other champions. I think every mid laner should play her at some point.
More User Perspectives
I started maining Ahri 2 months ago - I startet in silver and my peak was Plat 3. Than I ran into a brickwall. Any matchup I faced was unplayable for me, even if I was just fine weeks ago in Gold.. So I quit Ahri and startet playing other champs... With this Video, I hope to improve on Ahri again. Thank you guys :)
@HumanAmpYo get adblock or ublock chrome extension in your browser, works for edge+chrome+mozilla. Its 2026
@AYO_WHO_THISDoes this mean you won't be using the challenger vs emerald account anymore?
@JohnBukkakeHow do i stop my receding hairline?
@letallettuce816This has helped me a lot
@Cytax65I enjoy when Mysterias and AHJ go over patch notes so I will watch this! I did not know that AHJ was part of the academy. Is Mysterias also in the academy?
@GankMeHarderhttps://youtu.be/8oKg09ApIck?t=2485 so fucking funny
@xndrerikrd777Thanks for bringing back this series ❤
@garagaviaRank 1 Ahri EUW (Peng04) has a completely different playstyle maximising CDR, but hit rank 1 EUW with it. It's interesting that Ahri is playable to such an elite level with both playstyles.
@fakeperson484421:00 this guy 100% plays POE 😂
@MrJoergerbombLiterally just the other day I got "outplayed" by an Ahri oneshotting me with just her R and W and thought it was bullshit... never thought about W + R + lichbane damage being so crazy...
@ConyeOSRSGlad you’re back at it
@gcstroudOMG, cant believe Nathan is cheating on Curtis with another midlaner :O
@XcarkThis guy treats snapping like cs/m
@XtimesIIIThis is a cool episode and concept but i cant lie the constant snapping by the ahri OTP made this a way worse watch
@TSSPDarkStari hate ahri so much it’s insane idk why riot lets this champ be meta for all eternity
@eebbaa5560so many goats
@milkpuddleNow do one for samira
@urmom6850Tbh Neeko carried all the fights
@SPearl98noooo don't get more ppl to take/ban my main xD jkjk, love Ahj's content, came across it recently.
@YGOHeliosTMOh yeah a second episode, praying for more 2-episode-a-week weeks from now on, thank you guys for the hard work!
@HanyuuHOLOdamn this guy loves snapping his fingers
@kyouma0519Bro half his reasoning for stuff is to just be better than your opponent
@Sanspepinsi love ahj content!
@lordscrubblebottom3082''beyould''
@whatspoppinsambtw, i think ahri is a hard champion.
Not mechanically, but it'll always be harder to pilot a jack of all trades than a master of one.
The skill, which is intuitive and a prerequisitive for higher elo people, is deciding what the game state is and what they need to do on ahri to adapt that game.
On lux, I have one job, It doesnt matter what the game is, I need to sit at the back and throw my spells
Ahj goat 👑🐐
@TheZodiarch