Aphelios vs Jarvan IV
How to Beat Jarvan IV as Aphelios
based on 1,209 Aphelios vs Jarvan IV matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Jarvan IV Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Aphelios Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Jarvan IV as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Jarvan IV
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Jarvan IV
Cataclysm's terrain is a frightening force to fight against, but movement abilities can go through it.
Keep out of the path between Jarvan IV and his Demacian Standard to avoid being knocked up in the air.
Aphelios vs Jarvan IV Counter Stats
How to Counter Jarvan IV with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several vital Aphelios versus Jarvan IV matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jarvan IV’s ratio of NaN, showing that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Jarvan IV..
Aphelios often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Jarvan IV. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Jarvan IV
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Aphelios or Jarvan IV?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when playing against Jarvan IV, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Aphelios makes a poor counter to Jarvan IV.
While Aphelios does have a lower winrate compared to Jarvan IV, when on opposite teams, Aphelios also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Aphelios into Jarvan IVas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aphelios has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jarvan IV. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Jarvan IV matchups, Jarvan IV is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Aphelios is a somewhat poor counter to Jarvan IV. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Jarvan IV.
Other Champion Matchups Against Aphelios
Additional Information for Aphelios Players
How We Calculated Our Aphelios vs Jarvan IV Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to counter Jarvan IV during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios usually racks up much more CS as Jarvan IV. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Aphelios versus Jarvan IV build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Jarvan IV than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.5% battling Jarvan IV with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Jarvan IV as Aphelios, you 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 combinations players picked for Aphelios vs Jarvan IV face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
If you would like to see Aphelios x Jarvan IV tips and builds for a a particular division rank, please choose one from the selection menu shown above. At first, the statistics and build suggestions given are computed using all rounds with data with these champions.