Ezreal vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Ezreal
based on 5,240 Ezreal vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ezreal vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Ezreal vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Ezreal
Tips for Playing as Ezreal against Aphelios
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Ezreal in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some critical Ezreal versus Aphelios counter stats that can help you realize the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Ezreal’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ezreal may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Ezreal normally has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ezreal and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Ezreal or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ezreal usually fairs equally well when taking on Aphelios, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Ezreal makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Ezreal does have a lower win rate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Ezreal also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ezreal into Apheliosas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ezreal also 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ezreal vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ezreal is a somewhat poor counter to Aphelios. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ezreal against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ezreal in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ezreal usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ezreal versus Aphelios build include Muramana, Spear of Shojin, and Essence Reaver. When Ezreal bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Aphelios than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ezreal had an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Aphelios as Ezreal, Ezreal players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Ezreal vs Aphelios fights, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
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