Aphelios vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Aphelios
based on 2,264 Aphelios vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Irelia
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Aphelios vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some critical Aphelios against Irelia counter stats that can help you understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia..
Aphelios normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Irelia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Irelia
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Irelia?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when trying to fight Irelia, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Aphelios makes a bad counter for Irelia.
While Aphelios does have a lower winrate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Aphelios also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Aphelios into Ireliaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aphelios also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Irelia matchups, Irelia 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 teamfights.
Aphelios is a trash counter to Irelia. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Aphelios against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to counter Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Irelia. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Aphelios versus Irelia build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Irelia than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 47.0% when playing against Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Irelia 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 runes we have analyed for Aphelios vs Irelia battles, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.0% winrate overall.
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