Brand vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Brand
based on 5,021 Brand vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Aphelios
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Brand in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several valuable Brand vs. Aphelios matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, showing that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aphelios..
Brand normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Aphelios. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Brand or Aphelios?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when facing off against Aphelios, with a 54.3% win rate. As a result, Brand makes a great counter for Aphelios.
While Brand does have a much higher winrate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Brand also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Aphelios.
Moreover, Brand also has some 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Aphelios matchups, Brand 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 teamfights.
Brand is a great counter to Aphelios. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Brand to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often accumulates less CS as Aphelios. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Brand versus Aphelios build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Aphelios than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 54.3% when countering Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Aphelios as Brand, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Brand vs Aphelios counters, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.3% win rate overall.
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