Akali vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Akali
based on 5,184 Akali vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Aphelios
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Akali vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Akali in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some significant Akali against Aphelios matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Akali usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she takes more damage than Aphelios. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Akali or Aphelios?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akali usually loses when playing against Aphelios, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a poor counter to Aphelios.
While Akali does have a lower win rate compared to Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Apheliosas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter to Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akali against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akali to counter Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Akali versus Aphelios build include Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when playing against Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Aphelios as Akali, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akali vs Aphelios matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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