Irelia vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Irelia
based on 2,264 Irelia vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Aphelios
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some strategic Irelia vs. Aphelios matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Aphelios..
Irelia typically has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Aphelios. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Irelia or Aphelios?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually wins when playing against Aphelios, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Irelia makes a good counter to Aphelios.
While Irelia does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Irelia also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Irelia into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Irelia also has some 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 isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Aphelios matchups, Irelia 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.
Irelia is a good counter to Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Aphelios during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Irelia versus Aphelios build include Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Irelia bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when playing against Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Aphelios as Irelia, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Irelia vs Aphelios clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.0% win rate overall.
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