Aphelios vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Aphelios
based on 5,021 Aphelios vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Brand
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Aphelios vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several critical Aphelios versus Brand matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Brand..
Aphelios usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Brand. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Brand
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Brand?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when playing against Brand, with a 45.7% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a bad counter for Brand.
While Aphelios does have a much lower winrate than Brand, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Aphelios into Brandas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aphelios has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Aphelios is a trash counter to Brand. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Aphelios against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to counter Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios on average gets more CS as Brand. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Aphelios versus Brand build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Aphelios bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Brand than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 45.7% battling Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Brand as Aphelios, you should take the Press the Attack, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Aphelios vs Brand matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.7% win rate overall.
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