Heimerdinger vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Heimerdinger
based on 1,285 Heimerdinger vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Aphelios
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats provided here feature several vital Heimerdinger vs. Aphelios matchup stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Heimerdinger often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Aphelios?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually wins when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Heimerdinger makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher winrate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Heimerdinger also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Heimerdinger into Apheliosas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Heimerdinger also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Aphelios matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Heimerdinger is a decent counter to Aphelios. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Heimerdinger against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Heimerdinger in order to counter Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Heimerdinger versus Aphelios build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Aphelios than with most other common item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 51.3% battling Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Aphelios as Heimerdinger, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Heimerdinger vs Aphelios matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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