Hwei vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Hwei
based on 4,169 Hwei vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hwei vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Hwei vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Hwei
Tips for Playing as Hwei against Aphelios
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Hwei in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several influential Hwei vs. Aphelios counter stats that can help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Hwei normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hwei and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Hwei or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hwei usually loses when playing against Aphelios, with a 46.7% win rate. Therefore, Hwei makes a bad counter for Aphelios.
While Hwei does have a lower win rate than Aphelios, when facing one another, Hwei also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Hwei into Apheliosas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Hwei also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Hwei is a garbage counter for Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Hwei against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hwei in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Hwei versus Aphelios build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Hwei included at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better countering Aphelios than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Hwei had an average win rate of 46.7% battling Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Aphelios as Hwei, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Gathering Storm, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Hwei vs Aphelios battles, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.7% winrate overall.
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