Aphelios vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Aphelios
based on 545 Aphelios vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Kalista
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Kalista
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
Aphelios vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Aphelios in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several valuable Aphelios against Kalista matchup statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between this pair of champs. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Aphelios typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Kalista
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 53.6% win rate. As a result, Aphelios makes a great counter to Kalista.
While Aphelios does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Aphelios also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Aphelios into Kalistaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aphelios has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Kalista matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a noticably higher 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 great counter to Kalista. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aphelios against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Aphelios versus Kalista build consist of Galeforce, Infinity Edge, and Bloodthirster. When Aphelios included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Kalista than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 53.6% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Kalista as Aphelios, you should equip 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 rune builds players used for Aphelios vs Kalista matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
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