Poppy vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Poppy
based on 1,480 Poppy vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Aphelios
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Poppy in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some strategic Poppy against Aphelios counter stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Aphelios..
Poppy typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Aphelios. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Poppy and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Poppy or Aphelios?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually fairs equally well when playing against Aphelios, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Poppy makes an ok counter to Aphelios.
While Poppy does have a lower winrate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Poppy also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Poppy into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Poppy also has a great 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Poppy is a somewhat poor counter to Aphelios. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Poppy against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Poppy to counter Aphelios during both the lane 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy usually accumulates less CS as Aphelios. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Poppy versus Aphelios build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Aphelios with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Aphelios as Poppy, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Poppy vs Aphelios counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Aphelios as Poppy are presented for all ranked divisions. To scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.