Ashe, the Frost Archer, is the archer with the second highest range from level 1. Coupled with her long range, her Frost Shot passive provides Ashe with a slow on her target with every normal attack. More specifically, Ashe’s abilities and normal attacks apply “Frost” to enemies, slowing them by 20-30% for 2 seconds (depending on level). Frost also ensures that each subsequent attack deals additional physical damage. With each attack and each ability, you extend the period during which your target is slowed.

Ashe should be aware that your critical hits do not deal any additional damage. Instead, they double the strength of the slowdown. However, this effect reverts to the original slowing value after one second.

Q – Ranger’s Focus grants additional attack speed when activated and turns Ashe’s normal attacks into a hail of 5 mini-arrows. The total damage of these mini arrows per attack is higher than Ashe’s normal attacks and increases as she levels up in the ability. Ranger’s Focus has no cooldown, but cannot be activated constantly. Whenever the ability is inactive, Ashe’s normal attacks generate an increase of “Focus” for 4 seconds, up to a maximum of 4 increases. After 4 seconds without renewing these boosts, Ashe loses one per second. Whenever you have 4 buffs ready, you can use the ability.

Note that the active of “Ranger’s Focus” resets the cooldown of Ashe’s normal attack. This means you can activate Q immediately after performing a normal attack to attack again. Caution! If you activate the ability in the middle of your attack animation, it will be canceled and replaced by a hail of arrows. Here you can achieve high damage peaks as well as tripping yourself up. You should practise this first if you want to try out Ashe. Practice mode is a good place to do this.

Volley is Ashe’s W ability, with which she fires several arrows in a cone shape in the chosen direction. Enemies hit take normal damage and enemy champions are also critically slowed. A target can be hit by several arrows, but only takes damage once from the volley.

With E – Hawk Shot, Ashe sends out her hawk, which reveals everything in its path for 2 seconds, as well as the target area for 5 seconds. Ashe periodically generates charges of Hawk Shot up to a maximum of 2 boosts. If you have accumulated both boosts, the ability has a cooldown of 5 seconds between the two E’s.

The recharge time is 90 seconds until you level the ability for the second time at level 14.

Ashe’s most famous ability is her ultimate “Enchanted Crystal Arrow”. Ashe fires an ice arrow in the chosen direction. If the arrow hits an enemy champion, it deals magic damage and stuns them for 1-3.5 seconds (depending on the flight distance). In addition, nearby enemy units take half damage and are slowed down.

For you as an Ashe player, it is very relevant to know that the hitbox is not the tip of the arrow, but a point at the beginning of the 3rd third of the animated arrow.