Aphelios vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Aphelios
based on 1,575 Aphelios vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Gragas
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Aphelios vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Aphelios in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several vital Aphelios vs. Gragas counter stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gragas..
Aphelios often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Gragas. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Gragas
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Gragas?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually fairs equally well when facing off against Gragas, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Aphelios makes an ok counter for Gragas.
While Aphelios does have a higher win rate compared to Gragas, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Aphelios into Gragasas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aphelios also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Gragas matchups, Gragas is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Aphelios is a decent counter to Gragas. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aphelios against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to counter Gragas 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 tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios often racks up more CS as Gragas. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Aphelios versus Gragas build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Gragas than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 50.0% when countering Gragas with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Gragas as Aphelios, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Aphelios vs Gragas fights, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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