Varus vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Varus
based on 3,726 Varus vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Aphelios
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Varus in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some significant Varus versus Aphelios matchup stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aphelios..
Varus usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Varus and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Varus or Aphelios?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Varus usually fairs equally well when taking on Aphelios, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Varus makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Varus does have a higher winrate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Varus also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Varus into Aphelios.
Additionally, Varus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Varus vs Aphelios matchups, Varus is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Varus is a decent counter to Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Varus against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus to counter Aphelios during both the early game 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 stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Varus versus Aphelios build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Varus used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Aphelios than with most other common item sets. In fact, Varus boasted an average win rate of 50.9% battling Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Aphelios as Varus, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Varus vs Aphelios LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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