Bard vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Bard
based on 2,651 Bard vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Aphelios
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Bard vs. Aphelios counter stats that can help us understand the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aphelios. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Bard or Aphelios?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 54.2% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter for Aphelios.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Apheliosas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Aphelios matchups, Bard is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Bard is a great counter for Aphelios. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard to counter Aphelios during both the lane 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 suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often gets a lot less CS compared to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Bard versus Aphelios build consist of Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 54.2% when playing against Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Aphelios as Bard, Bard players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Bard vs Aphelios counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.2% winrate overall.
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