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[4.3] Ashe Guide - Ashe, the Queen of kiting

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Ashe, the Queen of kiting

Hello and welcome to my guide for Ashe, the frost archer. She is the best ADC to pick up the role, but still offers a lot of options to carry your team for veteran ADC's

Pros

  • Easy to pick up (also has a great range of 600)
  • Great utility (hawkshot can literally ruin the enemy jgl's day by letting your team know where he is + global ult and slow on attacks)
  • can reveal invisible units (Akali in shroud, Wards, Kha'Zix ult)
  • Good learning curve with high skill ceiling (Champ is depending on how good you can kite)
  • useful even when playing from behind

Cons

  • has no mobility skills
  • has an easy kit => missing outplay mechanics
  • compared to other ADC's relativly low dmg (especially no burst)
  • if you are bad at kiting the champ is mediocore

Ashe Build

Best Build Guide for Ashe

Starting Items
Long Sword
Core Items
Blade of the Ruined King
Gluttonous Greaves
Full build example
Blade of the Ruined King
Gluttonous Greaves
Runaan's Hurricane
Wit's End
Infinity Edge
Mortal Reminder
additional options
Manamune
Maw of Malmortius
Black Cleaver
Death's Dance
Lord Dominik's Regards
Serpent's Fang

Item Build Description

Additional information on the items

Great first item on AsheAshe . You are guaranteed to get of the 3 attack passive and stick this way to your target even better. The high damage from BorK will often surprise other ADC's who take StormrazorStormrazor as first pick.

Splits your AA's on multiple targets to slow? That's great for skirmishes and team fights. Runaan's also helps you to farm minions way faster.

Great item with the magic on-hit and heal while below 50% hp. Preparing this item against a LuxLux or SeraphineSeraphine support for resistance to their poking is great. Should always be bought in games against AP champ.

Great statstick. Improves her AA dmg despite that her AA does not crit in the classic way.

Great armor pen item. Highest raw dmg and additional grievious wounds to help your team with that (especially useful with Runaan's HurricaneRunaan's Hurricane

Only great if you play poke builds (lethality Ashe)

If you need additional protection against AP comps Maw is great. Works especially good against burst champs.

If the team has 3 tanks you want to pick up a cleaver as addition to BorK and Mortal Reminder. You stack the passive armor shred really fast with your Ranger's FocusRanger's Focus .
 
[immortal shieldbow]
Another great defensive pick up. The lifeline often can prevent you from dying and the bonus vamp during lifeline helps you to heal up again.

Really powerful item for you. Fully stacked you gain 65% attack speed and 12 movespeed. Can be a good first item as well.

Decent option if you don't get 100% crit otherwise, else go Mortal ReminderMortal Reminder .

Serylda's is kinda really bad because you already got slow and it only affects your [ashe:2]

If you play against KarmaKarma or ShenShen you might wanna pick up this to get throu their shields.

Great as additonal sustain. The extra shield is also great against dive.

High AD, some AS and a big slow for 1 sec.. the item is strong but i wouldn't buy it on Ashe often



Ashe Runes

Best Runes for Ashe

Keystone
Lethal Tempo
Lethal Tempo
Domination
Weakness
Weakness
Resolve
Conditioning
Conditioning
Inspiration
Hunter Genius
Hunter Genius

Keystone: 99.9% you wanna take Lethal TempoLethal Tempo to quickly stack [ashe:1] and stick to your targets. Thanks to Frost ShotFrost Shot you always have some extra dmg which makes your surprisingly strong in early skirmishes on the lane. The 0.1% rest percent are between Fleet FootworkFleet Footwork and Kraken SlayerKraken Slayer . (IMPORTANT: THIS IS FOR ADC ASHE, NOT SUPPORT ASHE)


Domination: Those are the ones i chose mostly between. Triumph is viable, but i rather stick to weakness for the constant extra dmg.

  • WeaknessWeakness : Is constantly applied with your slow, definitly the best rune for her to pick up.
  • Gathering StormGathering Storm : Great scaling rune, but overall weaker on Ashe, since you aren't all about damage, but your utility as well.
  • Hunter VampirismHunter Vampirism : Extra stats and sustain.. good rune but might take a while to stack.


Resolve:

  • Bone PlatingBone Plating great if you often wanna trade. Wait for Bone Plating to be off cooldown and go fight the enemy, retreat, farm and repeat. it is bad against poke lanes.
  • Hunter TitanHunter Titan extra HP is always cool but mostly picked for the tenacity. Best rune against heavy cc teams.
  • ConditioningConditioning free stats scaling into the game.. Saves you in longer games lots of gold.


Inspiration:

  • Hunter GeniusHunter Genius usually my go to rune since it gives extra ability haste to use [ashe:ult] more often. You can dictate this way when you get picks.
  • Manaflow BandManaflow Band Ashe uses a lot of the blue juice, so this might help you poke the enemy in lane and also gives a bit extra AD if you grab MuramanaMuramana
  • Nimbus CloakNimbus Cloak often underestimated rune. Can help you kite better around the enemy.
Keystone
Font of Life
Font of Life
Domination
Weakness
Weakness
Resolve
Bone Plating
Bone Plating
Inspiration
Hunter Genius
Hunter Genius

Since this guides focuses on ADC ashe i wont talk much about support Ashe and just present runes which i used.

Keystone
Summon Aery
Summon Aery
Domination
Scorch
Scorch
Resolve
Hunter Titan
Hunter Titan
Inspiration
Manaflow Band
Manaflow Band

Setup for lethality Ashe

Skill Order

How to distribute skill points

Frost Shot
Frost Shot - Passive
Ranger's Focus
Ranger's Focus
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Volley
Volley
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Hawkshot
Hawkshot
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Enchanted Crystal Arrow
Enchanted Crystal Arrow
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Summoner Spells

When to take which summoners

Flash
Since Ashe has no mobility ability you have to take Flash. Get some space between them and you and kite the hell out of them
Ghost
Ghost is pretty underrated on ADC's but Ashe can make good use of it. You gaining movementspeed, while slowing the enemy with your AA is great. Makes kiting way easier.
Exhaust
Great summoner for minimizing the one fed enemies damage to your team. Best pick if the enemy has a lot of closer range champs.
Barrier
Barrier for short burst windows like a Zed ult combo or a Fizz ult

Combos

Learn how to maximize the champions potential

Volley
2nd
Auto Attack
AA
Ranger's Focus
1st

Slow targets with your VolleyVolley to be able to AA them and stack Ranger's FocusRanger's Focus

Ashe Matchups & Counters

Detailed information on how to play matchups and counters

Miss Fortune
Easy
Miss Fortune
Xayah
Medium
Xayah
Draven
Medium
Draven
Jhin
Medium
Jhin
Jinx
Medium
Jinx
Samira
Hard
Samira
Tristana
Hard
Tristana
Lucian
Hard
Lucian
Varus
Hard
Varus
Kai'sa
Skill
Kai'sa
Caitlyn
Skill
Caitlyn
Vayne
Skill
Vayne
Ezreal
Skill
Ezreal

You got longer range than Miss FortuneMiss Fortune and you both scale equally. Just try to get not hit by her Double UpDouble Up and you should be fine. If your team does not have many stuns try to position that you can interupt her ult

Ashe

Why is Ashe a good ADC

Compared to other ADC's Ashe does not deliver as much damage as the most of them, but you are still an ADC which will deliver high amounts of damage once you scale into the game. Ashe's biggest value comes from her utility. You can whenever you HawkshotHawkshot is up scout the enemy jungle where their jungler might path to (not like ppl in solo q look at the map, but in a team it is really strong). This is a great hinderance because this way your jungler is free to counter jungle the enemy jungle before he even notices, and your laners can prepare for ganks. Another great part of Ashe's kit is her slow from Frost ShotFrost Shot which gives your team always the chance to catch up to the enemy champion and secure kills. You are even one of the few ADC's who can set up kills anywhere on the map with Enchanted Crystal ArrowEnchanted Crystal Arrow . See your mid and jgl prey on the fed enemy YoneYone an ult from the fountain might make the kill possible with the long stun.

Ashe

Support Synergies

WIP

coming soon and will be updated with the release 4.0

Ashe

Gamestages

WIP

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