Aphelios vs Morgana
How to Beat Morgana as Aphelios
based on 4,374 Aphelios vs Morgana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Morgana Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Morgana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Morgana as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Morgana
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Morgana
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
Aphelios vs Morgana Counter Stats
How to Counter Morgana with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some critical Aphelios vs. Morgana counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Morgana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Morgana. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Aphelios usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Morgana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Morgana
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Morgana?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when playing against Morgana, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a poor counter to Morgana.
While Aphelios does have a lower win rate than Morgana, when facing one another, Aphelios also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Aphelios into Morganaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aphelios has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Morgana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Morgana matchups, Morgana is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Aphelios is a somewhat poor counter for Morgana. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Aphelios against Morgana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to counter Morgana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios on average accumulates much more CS as Morgana. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Aphelios versus Morgana build include Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Aphelios combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Morgana than with most other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when countering Morgana with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Morgana 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 we have analyed for Aphelios vs Morgana battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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