Amumu vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Amumu
based on 1,956 Amumu vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Amumu vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Amumu vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Aphelios
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Amumu in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some critical Amumu against Aphelios counter statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Amumu often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Aphelios. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Amumu and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Amumu or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Amumu usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Amumu makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Amumu does have a lower win rate compared to Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Amumu also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Amumu into Aphelios.
Additionally, Amumu has a lot of utility and CC, 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 is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Amumu is a somewhat poor counter for Aphelios. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Amumu in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game 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 grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu typically gets a lot less CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Amumu versus Aphelios build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Force of Nature. When Amumu combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Aphelios than with many other typical builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 49.3% when countering Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Aphelios as Amumu, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Amumu vs Aphelios matchups, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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