Nasus vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Nasus
based on 2,512 Nasus vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Aphelios
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some influential Nasus vs. Aphelios counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Aphelios..
Nasus usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Aphelios. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Nasus or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when playing against Aphelios, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a good counter to Aphelios.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate compared to Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nasus into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Nasus has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Aphelios matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nasus is a decent counter for Aphelios. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nasus versus Aphelios build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Aphelios than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus had an average win rate of 51.3% when countering Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Aphelios as Nasus, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Nasus vs Aphelios counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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