Xayah vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Xayah
based on 1,338 Xayah vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Aphelios
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Xayah in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some strategic Xayah against Aphelios matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Aphelios..
Xayah normally has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xayah and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Xayah or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xayah usually loses when playing against Aphelios, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Xayah makes a poor counter for Aphelios.
While Xayah does have a lower winrate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Xayah also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Xayah into Aphelios.
Additionally, Xayah also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champion 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.
Xayah is a somewhat poor counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Xayah against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Xayah versus Aphelios build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 48.3% when playing against Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Aphelios as Xayah, Xayah players should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Xayah vs Aphelios battles, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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