Vel'Koz vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Vel'Koz
based on 1,761 Vel'Koz vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Aphelios
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several important Vel'Koz against Aphelios matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Aphelios..
Vel'Koz often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when playing against Aphelios, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes a good counter to Aphelios.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Vel'Koz into Apheliosas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Aphelios matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Vel'Koz is an above average counter to Aphelios. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz typically picks up less CS relative to Aphelios. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz versus Aphelios build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Aphelios than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Aphelios as Vel'Koz, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Vel'Koz vs Aphelios face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.2% win rate overall.
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