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How to Win Nilah vs Aphelios Counter MatchupNilah is in the s tier of champions

Nilah vs Aphelios

How to Beat Aphelios as Nilah in LoLNilah is in the a tier of champions
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How to Beat Aphelios as Nilah

based on 1,284 Nilah vs Aphelios matchups
Win Rate
54 %
K/D/A
2.27
Pick Rate
2.1 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We at MOBA Champion evaluate millions of recently ranked League of Legends rounds each week. In our data, Nilah faced off against Aphelios in 1284 matches. Using so many matchups for Nilah vs Aphelios provides us confidence in our ability to provide actionable stats and a pro build to obliterate Aphelios. This champ pairing is fairly rare. Nilah is forced to battle against Aphelios in only 2.1% of their games.

Nilah vs Aphelios Matchup Summary

Nilah does a great job of beating Aphelios. Normally, they wins a whopping 54.0% of matches the champs face off with each other in. In Nilah vs Aphelios games, Nilah’s team is 0.0% more probable to obtain first blood. This implies that they most likely will get first blood against Aphelios.

Best Nilah vs Aphelios Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
PickaxeSerrated Dirk

Core Nilah Items

~22 Mins
BloodthirsterNavori QuickbladesThe Collector

Optional Items

Lord Dominik's RegardsVoltaic CycloswordImmortal ShieldbowStormrazor

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerhaste summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Nilah to level upq
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Second ability for Nilah to level upe
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Last skill for Nilah to max outw

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: BloodlineLast Stand
DominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceArmor
Nilah's passive ability p
Nilah's q ability q
Nilah's w ability w
Nilah's e ability e
Nilah's ultimate ability r
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Nilah

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.

Nilah vs Aphelios Counter Stats

Nilah Image
Win Rate
54 %
VS
Win Rate
46 %
Aphelios Image
8.3
< Kills >
6.8
6.4
< Deaths >
6.6
6.2
< Assists >
6.4
1.87
< Killing Sprees >
1.59
171
< Minions Killed >
174
0.17
< Dragons Killed >
0.19
0.54
< Inhibitors >
0.47
18,225
< Physical Damage >
20,857
180
< Magic Damage >
1,346
420
< True Damage >
436
18,825
< Damage Dealt >
22,640
23,945
< Damage Taken >
18,312
12,801
< Gold Earned >
11,866
2.64
< Towers >
2.33
0.06
< Baron Takedowns >
0.06
8,645
< Total Healing >
4,925
13,309
< Experience >
12,547
17
< Vision Score >
16
8
< Wards Placed >
8
88
< Time Dealing CC >
136

How to Counter Aphelios with Nilah in LoL

The stats shown here emphasize several vital Nilah versus Aphelios counter statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Aphelios..

Nilah often has a similar longest killing spree as their matchup does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Aphelios. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.

Differences between Nilah and Aphelios

Damage Types Compared

Nilah
Aphelios
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Nilah
Aphelios

Who is Better, Nilah or Aphelios?

Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nilah usually wins when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 54.0% win rate. As a result, Nilah makes a great counter to Aphelios.

While Nilah does have a much higher win rate compared to Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Nilah also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nilah into Apheliosas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.

Additionally, Nilah also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.

While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Aphelios matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.

Nilah is a great counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nilah against Aphelios.

Other Champion Matchups Against Nilah

Nilah Loses Against

LilliaLillia46% winrateTaricTaric47.7% winrateJannaJanna47.8% winrateBardBard48.3% winrate

Nilah Wins Against

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Top Synergies by Role

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Additional Information for Nilah Players

How We Calculated Our Nilah vs Aphelios Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Aphelios as Nilah, we analyzed 1,284 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Aphelios as Nilah comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

Other Useful Resources

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

To learn all of the intricacies of Nilah in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Nilah most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically 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 prioritize in your Nilah versus Aphelios build include Bloodthirster, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Nilah bought at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better versus Aphelios than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nilah boasted an average win rate of 54.0% when countering Aphelios with these items in their kit.

To have the greatest chance of defeating Aphelios as Nilah, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nilah vs Aphelios face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.0% win rate overall.

If you want to get Nilah x Aphelios tips and matchup stats and build suggestions for a a specific division rank, please select one from the selection menu shown above. By default, the stats and strategies given are computed using all games completed with both champs.