Aphelios vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Aphelios
based on 1,025 Aphelios vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Zilean
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Aphelios vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Aphelios in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several important Aphelios against Zilean counter statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zilean. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Aphelios usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Zilean
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Zilean?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aphelios usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zilean, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Aphelios makes an ok counter to Zilean.
While Aphelios does have a lower winrate compared to Zilean, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Aphelios into Zileanas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aphelios also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champ 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 somewhat poor counter for Zilean. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aphelios against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Aphelios in order to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios most often picks up much more CS compared to Zilean. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Aphelios versus Zilean build consist of Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Zilean than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 49.0% battling Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Zilean as Aphelios, Aphelios players should take 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 rune sets players used for Aphelios vs Zilean counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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