LeBlanc vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as LeBlanc
based on 1,365 LeBlanc vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
LeBlanc vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best LeBlanc vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as LeBlanc
Tips for Playing as LeBlanc against Aphelios
Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
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.
LeBlanc vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with LeBlanc in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several important LeBlanc vs. Aphelios counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the two. LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Aphelios..
LeBlanc normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Aphelios. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between LeBlanc and Aphelios
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Who is Better, LeBlanc or Aphelios?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 45.5% win rate. Therefore, LeBlanc makes a poor counter for Aphelios.
While LeBlanc does have a much lower winrate compared to Aphelios, when on opposite teams, LeBlanc also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking LeBlanc into Apheliosas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, LeBlanc has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in LeBlanc 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 allies during teamfights.
LeBlanc is a bad counter to Aphelios. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as LeBlanc against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master LeBlanc to counter Aphelios during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your LeBlanc versus Aphelios build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When LeBlanc incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Aphelios than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, LeBlanc had an average win rate of 45.5% battling Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Aphelios as LeBlanc, LeBlanc players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for LeBlanc vs Aphelios counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.5% win rate overall.
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