Kassadin vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Kassadin
based on 1,227 Kassadin vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Aphelios
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some strategic Kassadin versus Aphelios counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Kassadin often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Aphelios. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kassadin and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Aphelios?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kassadin usually fairs equally well when playing against Aphelios, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Kassadin makes an ok counter to Aphelios.
While Kassadin does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Kassadin also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Kassadin into Apheliosas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kassadin also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Aphelios matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kassadin is a decent counter for Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kassadin against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kassadin in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game 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 should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Aphelios. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kassadin versus Aphelios build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Malignance. When Kassadin incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Aphelios than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when playing against Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Aphelios as Kassadin, Kassadin players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kassadin vs Aphelios face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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