Lux vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Lux
based on 8,411 Lux vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Aphelios
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Lux against Aphelios counter statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Aphelios. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Lux normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Aphelios. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lux and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Lux or Aphelios?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lux usually wins when facing off against Aphelios, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Lux makes a good counter to Aphelios.
While Lux does have a higher winrate than Aphelios, when facing one another, Lux also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Lux into Aphelios.
Moreover, Lux also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux vs Aphelios matchups, Lux is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Lux is a decent counter to Aphelios. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lux against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lux 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux often gets less CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Lux versus Aphelios build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Lux incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Aphelios than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 51.3% when playing against Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Aphelios as Lux, Lux players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Lux vs Aphelios fights, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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