Everything for Ahri Top on patch 16.17, pulled from real Emerald+ ranked games — the build path, rune pages, the counters worth banning, the strongest teammates, and Ahri's win conditions.
Ahri is an AP mage in the top, and on patch 16.17 they grade out as a top-tier pick — a 55.5% win rate, 0.2% pick rate, 2,753 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Ahri spikes hardest in the mid game around the two-to-three-item mark — that is the window to force fights and objectives.
How Ahri wins: using Ahri's mobility to catch isolated targets, and roaming out of lane to snowball the rest of the map. The kit grades 9/10 mobility, 8/10 roaming. Play around where Ahri is thin, split-push and disengage (2/10, 2/10), and the enemy loses their angle.
The most-played core build is Malignance, Shadowflame, Zhonya's Hourglass, which holds a 55.2% win rate across 67 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.
The lane swings the other way into Kai'Sa (57.7%), and on the team side, Ahri gains the most from a Zed (+11.5% pair win rate).
The build Ahri Top players run most on patch 16.17, shown with its live win rate. Choose the enemy team up top to tailor it to the comp you are facing.
Champions that beat Ahri Top the most this patch, anywhere on the enemy team. Top ban targets.
The teammates that make Ahri Top stronger this patch, measured by how much the pair's win rate beats Ahri going solo.
Ahri is also played in this other role this patch.
Take Ahri into the Team Builder to plan around every pick, or check the Tier List to see exactly where Ahri ranks this patch.