Orianna vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Orianna
based on 1,225 Orianna vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Aphelios
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Orianna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some important Orianna versus Aphelios matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Orianna typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Orianna and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Orianna or Aphelios?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Orianna usually fairs equally well when facing off against Aphelios, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Orianna makes an ok counter to Aphelios.
While Orianna does have a lower win rate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Orianna also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Orianna into Apheliosas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Orianna 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 is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Orianna 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 allied champions during team fights.
Orianna is a somewhat poor counter to Aphelios. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Orianna against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Orianna in order to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Aphelios. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Orianna versus Aphelios build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Aphelios than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 49.3% when countering Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Aphelios as Orianna, Orianna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Orianna vs Aphelios counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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