Aphelios vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Aphelios
based on 1,529 Aphelios vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Alistar
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Aphelios vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Aphelios in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some influential Aphelios against Alistar counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Alistar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Aphelios typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Alistar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Alistar
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Alistar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually fairs equally well when facing off against Alistar, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Aphelios makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Aphelios does have a lower winrate than Alistar, when facing one another, Aphelios also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Aphelios into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aphelios also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Aphelios is a somewhat poor counter to Alistar. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to counter Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios often gets much more CS as Alistar. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Aphelios versus Alistar build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Alistar than with many other common builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 49.1% when countering Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Alistar as Aphelios, Aphelios players should use the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Aphelios vs Alistar counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
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