Veigar vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Veigar
based on 2,883 Veigar vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Aphelios
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some critical Veigar against Aphelios matchup statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Aphelios..
Veigar typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Veigar and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Veigar or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Veigar usually wins when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Veigar makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Veigar into Apheliosas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Veigar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Aphelios matchups, Veigar is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter for Aphelios. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Veigar against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Aphelios. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Veigar versus Aphelios build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Veigar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Aphelios than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 51.6% when playing against Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Aphelios as Veigar, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Veigar vs Aphelios fights, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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