K'Sante vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as K'Sante
based on 1,466 K'Sante vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Aphelios
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown here feature several influential K'Sante versus Aphelios counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
K'Sante normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their opponent does. Typically, they takes more damage than Aphelios. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Aphelios
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Aphelios?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when playing against Aphelios, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a poor counter for Aphelios.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate than Aphelios, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking K'Sante into Apheliosas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, K'Sante 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter to Aphelios. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as K'Sante against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your K'Sante versus Aphelios build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When K'Sante bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 48.5% when playing against Aphelios with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Aphelios as K'Sante, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for K'Sante vs Aphelios battles, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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