Zed vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Zed
based on 3,062 Zed vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Aphelios
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several vital Zed versus Aphelios matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between this set of champions. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Zed often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Aphelios. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Zed or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when playing against Aphelios, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Zed makes a bad counter to Aphelios.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Zed also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zed into Apheliosas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed 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 allies during teamfights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed to counter Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zed versus Aphelios build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Aphelios than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 48.1% battling Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Aphelios as Zed, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Zed vs Aphelios clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
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