Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Watch Kled's courage bar when he's off his mount - when it reaches 100%, he will remount and regain a significant amount of health.
Kled is much more threatening when he has Violent Tendencies ready.
Kled generates courage by damaging enemies with his Pocket Pistol and basic attacks, killing minions, and attacking structures or epic monsters.
The stats provided here highlight some strategic Aphelios against Kled counter stats that can help us realize the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kled’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kled..
Aphelios typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Kled. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when facing off against Kled, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a poor counter to Kled.
While Aphelios does have a lower winrate than Kled, when on opposite teams, Aphelios also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Aphelios into Kledas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aphelios has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kled. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Kled matchups, Kled is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Aphelios is a somewhat poor counter to Kled. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Kled.
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to counter Kled during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios usually gets a similar amount of CS as Kled. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Aphelios versus Kled build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Kled than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.1% battling Kled with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Kled as Aphelios, Aphelios players 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 players chose for Aphelios vs Kled battles, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kled as Aphelios are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.