Taliyah vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Taliyah
based on 985 Taliyah vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Aphelios
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Taliyah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several vital Taliyah versus Aphelios counter stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Taliyah typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taliyah and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when playing against Aphelios, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Taliyah makes a bad counter to Aphelios.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate compared to Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Taliyah also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Taliyah into Aphelios.
Moreover, Taliyah also 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 facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter to Aphelios. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Taliyah against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah in order to counter Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Taliyah versus Aphelios build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 48.1% battling Aphelios with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Aphelios as Taliyah, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Taliyah vs Aphelios fights, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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