Zyra vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Zyra
based on 3,609 Zyra vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Aphelios
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Zyra in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several important Zyra vs. Aphelios counter statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Aphelios. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Zyra typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Zyra or Aphelios?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zyra usually wins when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 53.7% win rate. Thus, Zyra makes a great counter to Aphelios.
While Zyra does have a higher winrate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Zyra also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Apheliosas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zyra has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Aphelios matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Zyra is a great counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zyra against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zyra in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Zyra versus Aphelios build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Morellonomicon, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Zyra combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Aphelios than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zyra boasted an average win rate of 53.7% when playing against Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Aphelios as Zyra, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zyra vs Aphelios counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.7% win rate overall.
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