Ivern vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Ivern
based on 994 Ivern vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ivern vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Ivern vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Ivern
Tips for Playing as Ivern against Aphelios
Use Brushmaker to set up future ambush spots!
Try to help allies follow up a good Rootcaller hit with Triggerseed!
Daisy can block skillshots and slow down enemies. Use her to peel for your teammates!
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.
Ivern vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Ivern in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several influential Ivern against Aphelios matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Aphelios. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Ivern usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ivern and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Ivern or Aphelios?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ivern usually wins when facing off against Aphelios, with a 55.5% win rate. As a result, Ivern makes a fantastic counter for Aphelios.
While Ivern does have a much higher winrate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Ivern also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Ivern 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, Ivern has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Aphelios matchups, Ivern is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ivern is a great counter for Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ivern against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ivern in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern typically accumulates a lot less CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Ivern versus Aphelios build consist of Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Ivern had an average winrate of 55.5% when countering Aphelios with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Aphelios as Ivern, you should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Ivern vs Aphelios clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 55.5% win rate overall.
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