Rek'Sai vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Rek'Sai
based on 524 Rek'Sai vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Aphelios
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some strategic Rek'Sai vs. Aphelios counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aphelios..
Rek'Sai usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Aphelios. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rek'Sai usually fairs equally well when facing off against Aphelios, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Rek'Sai makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Rek'Sai does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when facing one another, Rek'Sai also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rek'Sai into Aphelios.
Additionally, Rek'Sai also has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 overall in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Aphelios matchups, Rek'Sai is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Rek'Sai is a decent counter to Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rek'Sai against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rek'Sai to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai most often accumulates a lot less CS as Aphelios. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Rek'Sai versus Aphelios build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Aphelios than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average win rate of 50.2% battling Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Aphelios as Rek'Sai, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rek'Sai vs Aphelios counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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