Senna vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Senna
based on 6,714 Senna vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Senna vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Senna vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Senna
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.
Senna vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Senna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several strategic Senna versus Aphelios counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Senna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Senna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Senna normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Senna and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Senna or Aphelios?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Senna usually wins when taking on Aphelios, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Senna makes a good counter to Aphelios.
While Senna does have a higher winrate than Aphelios, when facing one another, Senna also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Senna into Apheliosas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Senna has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Senna vs Aphelios matchups, Senna is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Senna is a decent counter to Aphelios. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Senna against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Senna in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Senna most often racks up less CS compared to Aphelios. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Senna versus Aphelios build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Bloodsong. When Senna used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Aphelios than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Senna had an average winrate of 52.0% when countering Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Aphelios as Senna, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Cut Down, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Senna vs Aphelios fights, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Aphelios as Senna are presented for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.