Alistar vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Alistar
based on 1,529 Alistar vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Aphelios
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some influential Alistar against Aphelios counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between the pair. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aphelios. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Aphelios. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Alistar or Aphelios?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes an ok counter to Aphelios.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Alistar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Apheliosas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Aphelios matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter for Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically racks up a lot less CS relative to Aphelios. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Aphelios build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Aphelios than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 50.9% battling Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Aphelios as Alistar, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Alistar vs Aphelios clashes, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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