Ziggs vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Ziggs
based on 1,183 Ziggs vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Aphelios
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some significant Ziggs versus Aphelios counter stats that can help you realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Aphelios..
Ziggs typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ziggs and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Aphelios?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually fairs equally well when taking on Aphelios, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Ziggs makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Ziggs does have a lower winrate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Ziggs also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ziggs into Aphelios.
Additionally, Ziggs also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Ziggs is a somewhat poor counter to Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Aphelios. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Ziggs versus Aphelios build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Aphelios than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when playing against Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Aphelios as Ziggs, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Ziggs vs Aphelios matchups, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
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