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Locke vs Ahri
Mid Lane MatchupLocke vs Ahri MID matchup tips: who wins, how to trade, wave control and common mistakes.
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Who Wins
- Ahri wins pre-6 consistently due to her longer range on Q poke and E charm threat keeping you from freely stacking your Q on her — she can trade favorably at level 2 once she has E, since a landed charm into her full combo outdamages your setup before you have W to sustain through it.
- You need to respect her E range and avoid trading unless you have 3 Q stacks already applied, otherwise you're taking poke damage for no return.
How to Trade
- Post-6 the matchup shifts slightly in your favor if you can bait out her R dashes before committing — her R gives her three repositioning tools that can dodge your E blink and make your Q stacks expire, but if she burns them defensively you can all-in with E-W into full stack burst that she cannot sustain through.
- The execution threshold from your R also punishes her lack of a hard escape once her R charges are spent.
Wave Control
- Your optimal trade pattern is to land 2–3 Q stacks from max range while she's last-hitting, then wait for her to step forward or use E aggressively before blinking in with your own E to consume stacks and immediately activating W to absorb her retaliation damage, then recasting W to heal — do not initiate with E before stacks are applied or you waste your burst window entirely.
- Patience in stacking before committing is the difference between winning and losing the trade.
Mistakes to Avoid
- Do not use W as an engage tool or hold it reactively against her charm — if you get charmed mid-W you can still recast it to heal, but the bigger mistake is activating W too early before she's committed her damage, which means you heal for far less and lose the sustain advantage the ability provides.
- Burning W on a small poke trade rather than a full all-in is the single most common way to lose this lane.
Created on 06/25/2026
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