Zilean vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Zilean
based on 1,025 Zilean vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Aphelios
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Zilean in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several strategic Zilean vs. Aphelios matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences between these two champs. As an example, Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Aphelios. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Zilean normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zilean and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Zilean or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zilean usually wins when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Zilean makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Zilean does have a higher win rate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Zilean also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zilean into Aphelios.
Moreover, Zilean has a very large amount of utility and CC, 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Aphelios matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zilean is a decent counter for Aphelios. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zilean against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zilean to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean typically racks up a lot less CS compared to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Zilean versus Aphelios build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean included at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Aphelios than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 51.0% battling Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Aphelios as Zilean, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Zilean vs Aphelios counters, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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