Caitlyn vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Caitlyn
based on 9,219 Caitlyn vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against Aphelios
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Advice to Win Against Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Caitlyn vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Caitlyn in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several strategic Caitlyn against Aphelios counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the two. Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Caitlyn typically has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Caitlyn and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or Aphelios?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Caitlyn usually fairs equally well when facing off against Aphelios, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Caitlyn makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Caitlyn does have a higher win rate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Caitlyn also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Caitlyn into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Caitlyn has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Aphelios matchups, Caitlyn is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Caitlyn is a decent counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Caitlyn against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't need 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Caitlyn versus Aphelios build include Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Caitlyn used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Aphelios than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing against Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Aphelios as Caitlyn, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Caitlyn vs Aphelios face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
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