Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several important Singed versus Aphelios counter stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Singed typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Aphelios. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Singed usually wins when playing against Aphelios, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Singed makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Singed does have a higher winrate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Singed also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Singed into Aphelios.
Moreover, Singed also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Singed vs Aphelios matchups, Singed is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Singed is a good counter to Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Singed against Aphelios.
To truly master Singed to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Aphelios. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Singed versus Aphelios build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Singed bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Aphelios than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Singed had an average winrate of 52.9% when countering Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Aphelios as Singed, Singed players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Singed vs Aphelios face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Aphelios as Singed are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.