Kai'Sa vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Kai'Sa
based on 3,826 Kai'Sa vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Aphelios
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some critical Kai'Sa against Aphelios matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Aphelios..
Kai'Sa typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Aphelios?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Aphelios.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Aphelios.
Additionally, Kai'Sa also has almost no 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter to Aphelios. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa versus Aphelios build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kai'Sa included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Aphelios than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 46.9% battling Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Aphelios as Kai'Sa, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Kai'Sa vs Aphelios matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
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