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Aphelios vs Rakan

How to Beat Rakan as Aphelios in LoLAphelios is in the a tier of champions
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How to Beat Rakan as Aphelios

based on 2,569 Aphelios vs Rakan matchups
Win Rate
48 %
K/D/A
2.03
Pick Rate
2.9 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We summarize our matchup statistics from the millions of recently rated League matches that we review each and every week. Our guide on how to beat Rakan as Aphelios came out of an examination of 2569 ranked matches where both champions clashed against each other. This particular champ pairing is fairly rare. Aphelios encounters Rakan in only 2.9% of his rounds.

Aphelios vs Rakan Matchup Summary

Unfortunately, Aphelios does a below average job of beating Rakan. Normally, he wins a lowly 48.0% of matches the champions fight one another in. In Aphelios versus Rakan matches, Aphelios’s side is 0.0% more likely to gain first blood. This indicates that he most likely will get first blood against Rakan.

Best Aphelios vs Rakan Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Aphelios Items

~22 Mins
Infinity EdgeBloodthirsterStormrazor

Optional Items

Lord Dominik's RegardsThe CollectorRunaan's HurricaneKraken Slayer

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerhaste summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Aphelios to level upq
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Second ability for Aphelios to level upe
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Last skill for Aphelios to max outq

Runes

PrecisionFleet FootworkOverhealLegend: BloodlineCut Down
SorceryAbsolute FocusGathering Storm
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Aphelios's passive ability p
Aphelios's q ability q
Aphelios's w ability w
Aphelios's e ability e
Aphelios's ultimate ability r
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Aphelios

Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Rakan

Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.

Advice to Win Against Rakan

Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.

Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.

Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.

Aphelios vs Rakan Counter Stats

Aphelios Image
Win Rate
48 %
VS
Win Rate
52 %
Rakan Image
6.3
< Kills >
1.5
6.1
< Deaths >
5
6.1
< Assists >
14.7
1.47
< Killing Sprees >
0.25
179
< Minions Killed >
32
0.19
< Dragons Killed >
0.04
0.51
< Inhibitors >
0.51
20,141
< Physical Damage >
1,180
1,335
< Magic Damage >
4,741
454
< True Damage >
731
21,931
< Damage Dealt >
6,653
17,699
< Damage Taken >
19,426
11,772
< Gold Earned >
8,215
2.46
< Towers >
1.84
0.06
< Baron Takedowns >
0.01
4,880
< Total Healing >
5,850
12,268
< Experience >
10,268
17
< Vision Score >
65
8
< Wards Placed >
31
142
< Time Dealing CC >
169

How to Counter Rakan with Aphelios in LoL

The stats provided here emphasize some vital Aphelios versus Rakan counter statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between the two. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.

Aphelios typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.

Differences between Aphelios and Rakan

Damage Types Compared

Aphelios
Rakan
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Aphelios
Rakan

Who is Better, Aphelios or Rakan?

Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when trying to fight Rakan, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Aphelios makes a bad counter for Rakan.

While Aphelios does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Aphelios into Rakanas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.

Furthermore, Aphelios also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.

Aphelios is a garbage counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Aphelios against Rakan.

Other Champion Matchups Against Aphelios

Aphelios Loses Against

BraumBraum44.1% winrateIvernIvern44.5% winrateMiss FortuneMiss Fortune45.1% winrateAniviaAnivia45.6% winrate

Aphelios Wins Against

YuumiYuumi54.8% winrateLeBlancLeBlanc54.5% winrateZeriZeri54.2% winrateHweiHwei53.3% winrate

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Additional Information for Aphelios Players

How We Calculated Our Aphelios vs Rakan Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Rakan as Aphelios, we analyzed 2,569 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Rakan as Aphelios comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

Other Useful Resources

Aphelios Build Rakan Build

Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to counter Rakan 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Aphelios on average gets much more CS relative to Rakan. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.

The ideal items to use in your Aphelios versus Rakan build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Rakan with these items in his kit.

To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Rakan 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 rune combinations players chose for Aphelios vs Rakan face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.

By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rakan as Aphelios are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.