Azir vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Azir
based on 1,524 Azir vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Aphelios
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Advice to Win Against Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Azir vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Azir in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several important Azir vs. Aphelios matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences between the two. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aphelios..
Azir typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Azir or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when facing off against Aphelios, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Azir does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Azir into Apheliosas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Aphelios matchups, Azir is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Azir is a decent counter to Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Azir against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Azir versus Aphelios build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 50.1% when countering Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Aphelios as Azir, Azir players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Azir vs Aphelios clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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