Volibear vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Volibear
based on 1,846 Volibear vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Volibear vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Volibear vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Volibear
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.
Volibear vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Volibear in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some valuable Volibear against Aphelios counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Aphelios..
Volibear normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Aphelios. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Volibear and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Volibear or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Volibear usually loses when playing against Aphelios, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Volibear makes a bad counter to Aphelios.
While Volibear does have a lower win rate compared to Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Volibear also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Volibear into Aphelios.
Moreover, Volibear has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Volibear 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Volibear is a trash counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Volibear against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Volibear to counter Aphelios during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Aphelios. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Volibear versus Aphelios build include Nashor's Tooth, Riftmaker, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Volibear bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Aphelios than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Volibear boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when countering Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Aphelios as Volibear, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Volibear vs Aphelios fights, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.2% win rate overall.
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