Morgana vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Morgana
based on 4,374 Morgana vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Morgana vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Morgana vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Morgana
Tips for Playing as Morgana against Aphelios
Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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.
Morgana vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Morgana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several critical Morgana against Aphelios matchup stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, showing that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Morgana often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Morgana and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Morgana or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Morgana usually wins when facing off against Aphelios, with a 51.1% win rate. As a result, Morgana makes a good counter to Aphelios.
While Morgana does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Morgana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Morgana into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Morgana also has a great amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Aphelios matchups, Morgana is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Morgana is a decent counter to Aphelios. Focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Morgana against Aphelios.
Other Champion Matchups Against Morgana
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Morgana to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to 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.
Morgana typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Morgana versus Aphelios build consist of Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Aphelios than with many other common item sets. In fact, Morgana boasted an average winrate of 51.1% when playing against Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Aphelios as Morgana, Morgana players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Triple Tonic, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Morgana vs Aphelios fights, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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