Aphelios vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Aphelios
based on 573 Aphelios vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Xayah
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Aphelios vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Aphelios in LoL
The stats shown here show several valuable Aphelios vs. Xayah matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Xayah..
Aphelios often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Xayah
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Xayah?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Xayah, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes an ok counter for Xayah.
While Aphelios does have a lower win rate compared to Xayah, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Aphelios into Xayahas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aphelios has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Xayah matchups, Xayah is the better champ with a similar 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 somewhat poor counter to Xayah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to counter Xayah 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 here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Xayah. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Aphelios versus Xayah build include Galeforce, Infinity Edge, and The Collector. When Aphelios combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Xayah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 49.6% when playing against Xayah with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Xayah as Aphelios, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Taste of Blood, and Ingenious Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Aphelios vs Xayah clashes, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xayah as Aphelios are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.