Aphelios vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Aphelios
based on 1,096 Aphelios vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Lissandra
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Aphelios vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Aphelios in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several valuable Aphelios versus Lissandra counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lissandra..
Aphelios often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Lissandra?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when facing off against Lissandra, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a poor counter for Lissandra.
While Aphelios does have a lower win rate than Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Aphelios into Lissandraas 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 Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Aphelios is a terribly counter to Lissandra. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Lissandra. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Aphelios versus Lissandra build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Lissandra than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 47.9% battling Lissandra with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Lissandra as Aphelios, you 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 players chose for Aphelios vs Lissandra counters, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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