Ashe Wild Rift Build & Guide

Innate: Frost Shot

Ashe’s auto attacks slow down enemies and attacks she makes to targets she has already damaged deal bonus damage based on her crit rate. Her critical attacks do not deal bonus damage but instead inflict a stronger slow effect.

Critical chance and critical damage influence the strength of the bonus damage she deals on slowed targets. It works this way:

If a normal marksman champion has 100 AD, 20% crit rate and 200% crit damage it will deal damage this way in 5 hits:

100 200 100 100 100 = 600 total damage – 1 critical strike

Ashe with 100 AD, 20% crit rate and 200% crit damage it will deal damage this way in 5 hits:

120 120 120 120 120 = 600 total damage

Ashe’s damage output is more simple and linear and reliable.

The slow effect scales based on level and critical attacks make it deliver twice the slow amount.

The damage bonus takes effect only on champions slowed by Ashe herself.

All the effects that Frost Shot grants can be applied to the extra attacks that Runaan’s Hurricane provides.

Q | 1st: Ranger’s Focus

Ranger’s Focus increases Ashe’s attack speed and attack damage which makes it a double steroid that is scary effective at increasing her DPS. The catch here is that she needs to build stacks first that is consumed with each attack while the ability is active.

Ranger’s Focus is also an auto-attack reset. You should practice doing the AA + 1st + AA combo consistently to maximize and optimize your damage output on Ashe.

W | 2nd: Volley

Volley makes Ashe simultaneously launch multiple arrows in a cone area. The arrows deal physical damage and slow enemies by the crit amount or double of her normal slow effect.

Volley is a great harassment tool because it has a wide area of effect and fast projectile speed. It is almost impossible to dodge it unless the enemy is hiding behind a minion.

Each arrow can only hit one target and multiple arrows can hit a target but can only be damaged once. Because of this, large champions like Gragas or Shyvana in her Dragon form can protect their allies from being slowed but be damaged only once.

A minion, even though they are small, can block multiple arrows if they are close enough. But, a minion or enemy that is going to die to a Volley arrow will only receive one arrow if Volley is their cause of death. Use this to surprise enemies in the laning phase.

Always start your trades with Volley so that your first auto-attack will immediately deal bonus damage.

E | 3rd: Hawkshot

Hawkshot shoots a projectile that reveals the area that it travels for a short while. It can then be reactivated to provide vision to an area for a slightly longer duration and reveal all units where the reactivation happens.

Hawkshot is a great way to provide a logistic advantage to your team throughout the game. The vision advantage that this ability can give especially against the enemy’s jungler yields great value to your team. The biggest and most apparent advantage is that by knowing where the enemy jungler is, your team will be safer from ganks and the enemy jungler and their team more and more frustrated from their jungler’s hard game.

Hawkshot is also a great way to check bushes so your team doesn’t have to “facecheck” or check the bushes themselves and put them in danger. Plus, enemies will try to outplay you and your team using the bushes and this ability completely negates that style of juking.

Another important thing to note is that Hawkshot reveals invisible champions like Akali in her Twilight Shroud or Teemo when he activates his Guerilla Warfare.

There are different ways to utilize this ability to its fullest. I recommend looking for videos and practice it in the practice tool. Here are some suggestions:

• Dragon Lane – Blue side (normal side) – from T1 turret to the enemy’s Gromp Jungle camp, the one near the enemy’s T1 Baron lane turret.
• Dragon Lane – Red side (mirror side) – from T1 turret to the enemy’s Krugs Jungle camp, the one near the enemy’s T1 Baron lane turret.
• The Dragon’s and Baron Nashor’s Pits

R | Ultimate: Enchanted Crystal Arrow

Enchanted Crystal Arrow shoots out a giant arrow that has a global range and deals AoE magic damage and stuns the first champion it hit. It has a pretty slow speed but its stun increases the farther the arrow travels. A cool feature of Ashe’s ultimate is that the arrow can be controlled by holding onto the skill button.

Enchanted Crystal Arrow turns Ashe into a global threat as her ultimate enables her to initiate or to follow up on fights.

Yes, landing your ultimate across the map is extremely satisfying but it is equally useful to use it in short range bouts as an initiation tool, follow-up CC, or even as a finisher.

You can Flash while casting Enchanted Crystal Arrow and the direction of the arrow will not be affected which is useful for escaping or avoid skill shots.

If you are planning to control your ultimate, cast it under your tower or under a bush because you might lose track of your champion and be vulnerable to ganks.

Combo: 2nd + AA + AA + AA + AA + 1st + AA + AA +AA + AA