Best Airi Build, Rune Page & Guide for 2026

• Continuously use the empowered slash from her passive Slash on enemy heroes to deal true damage and heal Airi , since this is her main source of damage.
• Use Skill 1 Spin with its long range to clear minions, crowd control, poke, check bushes, contest objectives, and reset the cooldown of Skill 2 Shadow .
• Time Skill 1 Spin carefully — if it hits 2 or more enemy heroes, you’ll get 2 cooldown resets on Skill 2 Shadow .
• Always follow up with a basic attack after using Skill 2 Shadow to trigger the empowered slash from her passive Slash .
• Use Skill 3 Ryuu while still at high health to dive into the enemy team and pick off their core damage dealer, or to absorb their damage when opening a fight and create an opening for your allies. This skill also refreshes and grants 2 cooldown resets on Skill 2 Shadow if it hits 2 enemy heroes.

Depending on the situation you can use different combos, but they all revolve around casting Shadow plus basic attacks as many times as possible. If you want to pull off harder combos like the 7-8 skill combo or the “300km/h” combo like the pro idols, watch the guide videos above and practice a lot.

Airi is very weak in the early game since this hero needs items to deal significant damage and sustain, so the best choice is to go solo in the Abyssal Lane against Caesar.

Airi has a hard time ganking or defending against early attacks in this phase, so focus on farming minions safely and hugging your turret to avoid fights. Skillfully use your 4th basic attack to trigger healing from her passive Slash to hold the lane.

Prioritize building Gilded Greaves to boost your survivability while continuing to farm, and look to secure kills if your allies come to gank for you. The goal for Airi in this phase is to earn gold and complete your build as fast as possible.

Heading into the mid game, once you have your full combo and a few essential items like Gilded Greaves , Curse of Death and Airi becomes quite strong.

Start moving around to gank, secure objectives, and team fight with your allies. With her sustain, true damage from Slash , and healing reduction from Curse of Death , you can pick off enemy heroes who wander alone, even tanks caught out of position.

The goal in this phase is, if you can’t win outright, to maintain your lead and drag the game toward late game for Airi .

The late game is when Airi is extremely strong — once you have 5 or 6 full items, you can duel any hero one-on-one or even take on 4 or 5 enemies at once for a megakill.

With the ability to use Shadow repeatedly, dash into fights to take down the enemy’s core damage dealer first, then continue finishing off the remaining targets.

With extremely high mobility plus Blade of Eternity , it becomes extremely hard to kill Airi , so whether it’s a team fight, a duel, or a solo split push, Airi is dominant in every scenario during this phase.

So the playstyle for Airi in the late game is: attack, attack, and keep attacking until you win.