Aphelios
Hardest matchups for Aphelios in Bot (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Zed, 
Xerath, 
Vel'Koz. Easiest: 
Ezreal, 
Cassiopeia, 
Mel.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into ApheliosOn the pro tier list
Aphelios on patch 16.22
- Bot50.2%#31 of 51B17,843 games
- steady since 16.21
Aphelios’s main role on patch 16.22 is Bot: a 50.2% win rate across 17,843 Emerald games, #31 of 51 Bot champions on the tier list (grade B), picked in 7.0% of games. Since patch 16.21, Aphelios Bot has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.0 points across 95,230 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bot99% of its games | B | 50.1%50.1% raw ±0.4 | 61,272 | 8.6%4.3% banned | 52.6%45.7% first time |
| Mid1% of its games | too few games | 49.2%47.3% raw ±5.1 | 374 | 0.1%4.2% banned | 51.3%46.8% first time |
| Top0% of its games | too few games | 48.8%44.5% raw ±6.0 | 263 | 0.0%4.2% banned | 50.5%47.5% first time |
| Support0% of its games | too few games | 50.0%50.0% raw ±24.5 | 16 | 0.0%4.2% banned | 51.5%47.2% first time |
| Jungle0% of its games | too few games | 49.9%41.7% raw ±28.3 | 12 | 0.0%4.2% banned | 51.5%47.2% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Aphelios’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Aphelios, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Aphelios
Lane leads and team bans
What Aphelios’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Aphelios than the other team does in the same games (363,844 games). The other team banned before Aphelios was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Aphelios was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Aphelios is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Crit
52.2%60,601 games - Lethality
53.4%235 games - On-hit
51.9%27 games - Mana stack
52.1%1 games - Tank
52.1%1 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Aphelios does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
66,065 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Barrier50.2% · 43,012 games
Press the AttackPrecision + Inspiration · 50.9%
Triumph · Legend: Bloodline · Cut Down · Cash Back · Cosmic InsightShards: Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Doran's Bow + Health Potion · 52.1%
Key items: Stormrazor → Infinity Edge · 53.9%
Boots: Gluttonous Greaves · 54.4%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Barrier50.2%43,012 games · 65% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Exhaust + Flash49.8%6,984 games · 11% pick rate · same players: −1.6 pts vs the usual
Flash + Ghost50.3%9,154 games · 14% pick rate · same players: −2.7 pts vs the usual
Cleanse + Flash48.5%6,652 games · 10% pick rate · same players: −3.1 pts vs the usual
Keystones
- Press the Attack + Inspiration50.9%44,840 games · 68% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Press the Attack + Sorcery48.5%6,478 games · 9.8% pick rate · same players: −1.0 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Conqueror + Inspiration51.3%3,700 games · 5.6% pick rate · same players: −1.5 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Fleet Footwork + Inspiration49.2%2,000 games · 3.0% pick rate · same players: −2.4 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Minor runes with Press the Attack
- Triumph51.0%85% take it
Absorb Life48.1%11% take it
Presence of Mind51.0%3.3% take it
- Legend: Bloodline50.6%91% take it
Legend: Alacrity51.1%8.5% take it
- Cut Down50.5%96% take it
Coup de Grace52.6%3.5% take it
- Cash Back50.9%92% take it
- Cosmic Insight50.6%29% take it
Triple Tonic50.5%65% take it
Jack Of All Trades54.2%7.2% take it
Magical Footwear54.8%4.2% take it
Biscuit Delivery51.8%2.3% take it
- Adaptive Force52.0%25% take it
- Attack Speed49.3%75% take it
- Adaptive Force50.0%98% take it
- Move Speed51.8%2.1% take it
- Health50.5%75% take it
- Health Scaling48.8%25% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Aphelios’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Aphelios’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Aphelios does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Aphelios wins 46.6%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.7%. That gap ranks it 56 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 140K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Aphelios in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bot | 48.5%84W 99L | 9%9% in any lane | 61% counter | +154 gold | — |
How much knowing Aphelios pays
Players on their Mastery band win 6.2 points more on Aphelios than first-timers do: #56 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Aphelios players win 52.7%: #63 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 56.4% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
ApheliosDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Aphelios ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Xayah, Sivir, Smolder.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.