Aphelios vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Aphelios
based on 2,883 Aphelios vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Veigar Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Veigar
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Veigar
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
Aphelios vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some critical Aphelios versus Veigar counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Veigar..
Aphelios usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Veigar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Veigar
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Veigar?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when playing against Veigar, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a bad counter for Veigar.
While Aphelios does have a lower winrate than Veigar, when on opposite teams, Aphelios also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Aphelios into Veigaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aphelios has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Veigar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Aphelios is a somewhat poor counter for Veigar. 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 Veigar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Aphelios in order to counter Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Veigar. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities 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 surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Aphelios versus Veigar build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Veigar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.4% when playing against Veigar with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Veigar as Aphelios, you should equip 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 we have analyed for Aphelios vs Veigar matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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