Aphelios vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Aphelios
based on 4,265 Aphelios vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Master Yi
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Aphelios vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several important Aphelios against Master Yi matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Master Yi..
Aphelios usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Master Yi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Master Yi?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when facing off against Master Yi, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Aphelios makes a bad counter for Master Yi.
While Aphelios does have a lower winrate than Master Yi, when facing one another, Aphelios also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Aphelios into Master Yias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aphelios also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Aphelios is a trash counter for Master Yi. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Aphelios against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to counter Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios on average gets much more CS compared to Master Yi. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Aphelios versus Master Yi build include Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Aphelios used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Master Yi than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when countering Master Yi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Master Yi as Aphelios, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Aphelios vs Master Yi fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Master Yi as Aphelios are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.