Annie vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Annie
based on 1,376 Annie vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Annie vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Annie vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Annie
Tips for Playing as Annie against Aphelios
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Annie in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several critical Annie vs. Aphelios matchup stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Annie’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Annie may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Aphelios..
Annie usually has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Annie and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Annie or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Annie usually fairs equally well when playing against Aphelios, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Annie makes an ok counter to Aphelios.
While Annie does have a higher winrate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Annie also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Annie into Aphelios.
Additionally, Annie has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Annie vs Aphelios matchups, Annie is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Annie is a decent counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Annie against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Annie on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Aphelios. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Annie versus Aphelios build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Annie bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Aphelios than with many other typical builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when countering Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Aphelios as Annie, Annie players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Annie vs Aphelios clashes, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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