Syndra vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Syndra
based on 2,047 Syndra vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Aphelios
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Syndra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several significant Syndra against Aphelios counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, showing that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Aphelios..
Syndra typically has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Syndra and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Syndra or Aphelios?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Syndra usually wins when facing off against Aphelios, with a 52.7% win rate. Thus, Syndra makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Syndra does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Syndra also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Syndra into Apheliosas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Syndra also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Aphelios matchups, Syndra is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Syndra is a good counter to Aphelios. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Syndra against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Syndra to counter Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Syndra versus Aphelios build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Aphelios than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Syndra had an average winrate of 52.7% battling Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Aphelios as Syndra, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Syndra vs Aphelios fights, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.7% winrate overall.
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