Nunu & Willump vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Nunu & Willump
based on 2,034 Nunu & Willump vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Aphelios
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several vital Nunu & Willump against Aphelios counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aphelios. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Aphelios. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually fairs equally well when playing against Aphelios, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nunu & Willump into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter to Aphelios. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen 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.
Nunu & Willump most often picks up a lot less CS as Aphelios. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nunu & Willump versus Aphelios build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Aphelios than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 49.1% battling Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Aphelios as Nunu & Willump, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nunu & Willump vs Aphelios battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
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