Akshan vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Akshan
based on 1,640 Akshan vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Aphelios
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable Akshan against Aphelios matchup stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Akshan typically has a similar longest kill spree as their enemy does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Akshan or Aphelios?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually fairs equally well when facing off against Aphelios, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Akshan does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Akshan into Aphelios.
Moreover, Akshan also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Aphelios matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Akshan is a decent counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Akshan versus Aphelios build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Akshan combined at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better against Aphelios than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when countering Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Aphelios as Akshan, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akshan vs Aphelios fights, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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