Viktor vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Viktor
based on 1,325 Viktor vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Aphelios
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Viktor in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several strategic Viktor against Aphelios counter stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aphelios..
Viktor normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Viktor and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Viktor or Aphelios?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Viktor usually wins when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 52.6% win rate. Therefore, Viktor makes a good counter to Aphelios.
While Viktor does have a higher win rate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Viktor also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Viktor into Apheliosas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Viktor has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Aphelios matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Viktor is a good counter to Aphelios. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Viktor against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Viktor in order to counter Aphelios during both the lane 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 increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Aphelios. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Viktor versus Aphelios build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Aphelios than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Viktor boasted an average winrate of 52.6% when countering Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Aphelios as Viktor, you should use 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 we have analyed for Viktor vs Aphelios clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Aphelios as Viktor are given for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.