Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
The stats shown here feature several significant Aphelios vs. Kai'Sa matchup stats that may help us realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kai'Sa’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kai'Sa..
Aphelios often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kai'Sa. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aphelios usually fairs equally well when taking on Kai'Sa, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Aphelios makes an ok counter to Kai'Sa.
While Aphelios does have a higher winrate compared to Kai'Sa, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Aphelios into Kai'Saas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach 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 Kai'Sa. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Kai'Sa matchups, Aphelios is the better champion with a similar 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 decent counter for Kai'Sa. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Aphelios against Kai'Sa.
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to counter Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios on average gets a similar amount of CS as Kai'Sa. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Aphelios versus Kai'Sa build consist of Galeforce, Infinity Edge, and Bloodthirster. When Aphelios combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Kai'Sa than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 50.4% when playing against Kai'Sa with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Kai'Sa as Aphelios, you should use the Press the Attack, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Aphelios vs Kai'Sa clashes, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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