Lissandra vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Lissandra
based on 1,096 Lissandra vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Aphelios
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Lissandra in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some critical Lissandra vs. Aphelios matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between these two champs. Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Lissandra usually has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lissandra usually wins when facing off against Aphelios, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Lissandra makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Lissandra does have a higher winrate than Aphelios, when facing one another, Lissandra also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Lissandra into Aphelios.
Additionally, Lissandra also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Aphelios matchups, Lissandra is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lissandra is an above average counter to Aphelios. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lissandra against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lissandra in order to counter Aphelios during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Lissandra versus Aphelios build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 52.1% when countering Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Aphelios as Lissandra, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Lissandra vs Aphelios counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
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