Shen vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Shen
based on 1,543 Shen vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shen vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Shen vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Aphelios
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
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.
Shen vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Shen in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several important Shen versus Aphelios matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Shen usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Aphelios. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shen and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Shen or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shen usually wins when playing against Aphelios, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Shen makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Shen does have a higher winrate compared to Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Shen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Shen into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Shen also has a great amount of utility and CC, 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shen vs Aphelios matchups, Shen is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Shen is an above average counter to Aphelios. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Shen against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Shen versus Aphelios build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Aphelios than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing against Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Aphelios as Shen, Shen players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Shen vs Aphelios counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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