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 provided here highlight several important Yuumi against Aphelios counter stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Aphelios. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Yuumi usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Aphelios. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when facing off against Aphelios, with a 45.2% win rate. Thus, Yuumi makes a poor counter to Aphelios.
While Yuumi does have a much lower winrate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Yuumi also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Yuumi into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Yuumi has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Yuumi is a bad counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Yuumi against Aphelios.
To learn all of the intricacies of Yuumi to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi on average racks up a lot less CS compared to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Yuumi versus Aphelios build include Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Yuumi bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Aphelios than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Yuumi had an average win rate of 45.2% when playing against Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Aphelios as Yuumi, Yuumi players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Yuumi vs Aphelios battles, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.2% win rate overall.
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