Grand Challenge allows Fiora to take down even the most durable opponents and then recover if successful, so do not hesitate to attack the enemy's front line.
Thanks to Duelist's Dance, Fiora excels at quick trades. Use the Move Speed boost from striking a Vital to escape unscathed or set up for the next one.
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some important Fiora versus Aphelios counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between the two. Fiora’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Fiora may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Fiora often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives more damage than Aphelios. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fiora usually wins when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Fiora makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Fiora does have a higher win rate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Fiora also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Fiora into Aphelios.
Moreover, Fiora has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Fiora vs Aphelios matchups, Fiora is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Fiora is a decent counter for Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fiora against Aphelios.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Fiora 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiora most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Fiora versus Aphelios build include Ravenous Hydra, Trinity Force, and Maw of Malmortius. When Fiora combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Aphelios than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Fiora had an average winrate of 51.4% when countering Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Aphelios as Fiora, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Fiora vs Aphelios matchups, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Aphelios as Fiora are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.