Gragas vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Gragas
based on 1,575 Gragas vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Aphelios
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several influential Gragas versus Aphelios counter stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Aphelios..
Gragas normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Aphelios. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Gragas or Aphelios?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when taking on Aphelios, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Gragas does have a higher winrate than Aphelios, when facing one another, Gragas also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gragas into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios 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 team fights.
Gragas is a decent counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas on average picks up less CS as Aphelios. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Gragas versus Aphelios build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Aphelios than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Aphelios as Gragas, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Gragas vs Aphelios matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
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