Katarina vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Katarina
based on 2,993 Katarina vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Aphelios
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several critical Katarina against Aphelios counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences between this pair of champions. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Aphelios..
Katarina often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Aphelios. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Katarina or Aphelios?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Aphelios, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter to Aphelios.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Katarina also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Apheliosas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Aphelios matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter to Aphelios. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Aphelios. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Katarina versus Aphelios build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 50.2% when countering Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Aphelios as Katarina, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Katarina vs Aphelios matchups, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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