Aphelios vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Aphelios
based on 439 Aphelios vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Kassadin
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Aphelios vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Aphelios in LoL
The stats provided here feature some critical Aphelios versus Kassadin counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kassadin..
Aphelios usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kassadin. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually wins when playing against Kassadin, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Aphelios makes a great counter to Kassadin.
While Aphelios does have a higher win rate compared to Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Aphelios into Kassadinas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aphelios has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Kassadin 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Aphelios is a great counter for Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aphelios against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Aphelios in order to counter Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kassadin. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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 require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Aphelios versus Kassadin build include Galeforce, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Kassadin than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 53.3% when countering Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Kassadin as Aphelios, Aphelios players should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Aphelios vs Kassadin LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.3% win rate overall.
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