Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
If you are struck by Fear Beyond Death, do your best to avoid falling below the execution threshold (25% of your Maximum Health) until the effect times out.
Urgot relies heavily on blasting opponents with his legs, which have their own cooldowns and only detonate when he attacks in the direction they are facing. Avoid getting hit by multiple.
Urgot can deal and absorb tremendous amounts of damage with Purge, but slows himself while firing.
The stats shown here highlight several important Aphelios vs. Urgot matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Urgot’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Urgot..
Aphelios typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Urgot. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when trying to fight Urgot, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a bad counter for Urgot.
While Aphelios does have a lower winrate compared to Urgot, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Aphelios into Urgotas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aphelios also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Urgot. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Urgot matchups, Urgot is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Aphelios is a garbage counter to Urgot. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Urgot.
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to counter Urgot during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue 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 significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Urgot. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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 need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Aphelios versus Urgot build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Urgot than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when countering Urgot with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Urgot as Aphelios, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Aphelios vs Urgot counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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