Aphelios vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Aphelios
based on 653 Aphelios vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Elise
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Aphelios vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several important Aphelios against Elise counter statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Elise..
Aphelios often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Elise. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Elise
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Elise?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when playing against Elise, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a poor counter for Elise.
While Aphelios does have a lower win rate compared to Elise, when facing one another, Aphelios also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Aphelios into Eliseas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aphelios also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Elise matchups, Elise is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Aphelios is a trash counter to Elise. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Aphelios against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to counter Elise during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios typically picks up much more CS relative to Elise. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Aphelios versus Elise build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Elise than with many other common builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 47.5% battling Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating Elise as Aphelios, Aphelios players should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Aphelios vs Elise counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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