Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
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 stats provided here emphasize several important Sivir against Aphelios counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Sivir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Sivir may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Aphelios..
Sivir typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sivir usually loses when facing off against Aphelios, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Sivir makes a bad counter to Aphelios.
While Sivir does have a lower winrate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Sivir also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Sivir into Aphelios.
Moreover, Sivir also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sivir vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Sivir is a somewhat poor counter to Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Sivir against Aphelios.
If you would like to truly master Sivir to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sivir often gets a similar amount of CS as Aphelios. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Sivir versus Aphelios build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Sivir used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Aphelios than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sivir had an average winrate of 48.2% when countering Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Aphelios as Sivir, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Sivir vs Aphelios LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
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