Aphelios Build Guides, Runes, Items, and Abilities - Patch 14.12
Aphelios The Weapon of the Faithful
Find the best Aphelios build guides for League of Legends S14 Patch 14.12. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Aphelios build for the S14 meta. Learn more about Aphelios' abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!
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[10.22] Aphelios ADC Guide
[10.22] Aphelios ADC Guide
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(10.21: Livestream) DIAMOND Aphelios ADC, 4 DIFFERENT TESTED
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- The Weapon Of The Faithful-
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#1 Aphelios ADC In-Depth Build Guide + Weapon Combo's
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Aphelios - The deadliest is your faith
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The Silent Killer | Marmeleader's Aphelios Guide | S10
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SSM's Gold Aphelios Guide Season 10
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[10.9] Diamond 1 - Aphelios ADC [Alune give me strenght!]
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TGS Guide to Aphelios | Match-Ups, Combos, and More!
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[9.24] 'So many weapons... The deadliest is your faith'
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[9.24] Aphelios Guide To Carry Your Game [ADC]
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Otter's Den Guide to Aphelios - ADC / Mid / Top
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Ultimate Aphelios h24 guide
Bronze break down Toer meta
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binhdinhz1
binhdinhz1
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yoDani's How not to always be dead with Aphelios guide
yoDani's How not to always be dead with Aphelios guide
Aphelios Top Guide
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My Recommended Aphelios Runes and Build! (New runes and buil
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[SS10] - Aphilios is so broken....
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Aphelios for Begginers
Aphelios Build & Runes
If you're looking for the best rune build for Aphelios we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Aphelios, as determined by calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Aphelios this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 14.12. However, if you are a new Aphelios player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Aphelios!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Aphelios's Runes
47%
Win Rate 88% Pickrate
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Second Best
48%
Win Rate 8% Pickrate
Third Best
48%
Win Rate 2% Pickrate
Aphelios's Summoner Spells
49%
Win Rate 42% Pickrate
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Aphelios's Starters
47%
Win Rate 95% Pickrate
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Aphelios's Core Items
57%
Win Rate 14% Pickrate
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Boots
Aphelios's Luxury Items
Aphelios's Ability Order
48%
Win Rate 52% Pickrate
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Second Best
43%
Win Rate 10% Pickrate
Third Best
46%
Win Rate 5% Pickrate
Aphelios Counters
Learn Aphelios' counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Aphelios guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!
This counter data is for Aphelios ADC in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Aphelios. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.
Best Against Aphelios
Worst Against Aphelios
Aphelios Skins
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Our Wish List feature will send you notifications when your skins are on sale!Aphelios' Abilities
Aphelios unlocks his weapon's ability (Q ability) at level 2 and his ultimate at level 6. Instead of powering up his abilities, Aphelios rank-ups grant him permanent stats, allowing him to choose between 4.5 / 9 / 13.5 / 18 / 22.5 / 27 attack damage, 9 / 18 / 27 / 36 / 45 / 54% attack speed or 5.5 / 11 / 16.5 / 22 / 27.5 / 33 lethality.
Lunari Weapon Order:
- Calibrum (Rifle): Long range attacks.
- Severum (Scythe pistol): Life steal and movement speed.
- Gravitum (Cannon): Slowing + immobilizing effects.
- Infernum (Flamethrower): Area of effect damage.
- Crescendum (Chakram): High damage at close range.
Abilities that use Calibrum mark targets for 4.5 seconds, revealing them. Aphelios can attack a marked target from long range with his off-hand weapon, causing all nearby marks to be consumed, dealing an additional 15 (+0.2 per bonus attack damage) physical damage each to the main target.
When Calibrum is assigned, Aphelios can use Moonshot.
When Severum is assigned, Aphelios can use Onslaught.
When Gravitum is assigned, Aphelios can use Binding Eclipse.
When Infernum is assigned, Aphelios can use Duskwave.
Other abilities that use Crescendum create mirror Chakram which each deal 0-160% bonus damage when Aphelios attacks (depending on level).
When Crescendum is assigned, Aphelios can use Sentry.
Each use of the ability will cost 10 Moonlight + 60 Mana.
Cooldown: 10-8 (between levels 1-13)
Each use of the ability will cost 10 Moonlight + 60 Mana.
Cooldown: 10-8 (between levels 1-13)
Each use of the ability will cost 10 Moonlight + 60 Mana.
Cooldown: 12-10 (between levels 1-13)
Each use of the ability will cost 10 Moonlight + 60 Mana.
Cooldown: 9-6 (between levels 1-13)
Each use of the ability will cost 10 Moonlight + 60 Mana.
Cooldown: 9 / 8.5 / 8 / 7.5 / 7 / 6.5 / 6 (levels 1-13)
Target Range: 475 Effect Radius: 500
Then, Aphelios attacks all champions hit with his main-hand weapon, applies the unique effect of Aphelios' main-han weapon.
Calibrum: Marks added this way deal an additional 50 / 80 / 110 physical damage each when consumed (depending on level).
Severum: Aphelios restores 275 / 400 / 525 health (depending on level).
Gravitum: Slow strength increased to 99%. Binding Eclipse's Root effect is increased to 1.35 seconds against these targets.
Infernum: The moonlight blast deals an additional 50 / 100 / 150 (+0.25 per bonus attack damage) physical damage, and the subsequent attacks explode, each dealing 90% of their damage to surrounding targets (depending on level).
Crescendum: Summons an additional 5 mirror Chakrams.
Then, Aphelios attacks all champions hit with his main-hand weapon, applies the unique effect of Aphelios' main-han weapon.
Calibrum: Marks added this way deal an additional 50 / 80 / 110 physical damage each when consumed (depending on level).
Then, Aphelios attacks all champions hit with his main-hand weapon, applies the unique effect of Aphelios' main-han weapon.
Crescendum: Summons an additional 5 mirror Chakrams.
Then, Aphelios attacks all champions hit with his main-hand weapon, applies the unique effect of Aphelios' main-han weapon.
Gravitum: Slow strength increased to 99%. Binding Eclipse's Root effect is increased to 1.35 seconds against these targets.
Then, Aphelios attacks all champions hit with his main-hand weapon, applies the unique effect of Aphelios' main-han weapon.
Infernum: The moonlight blast deals an additional 50 / 100 / 150 (+0.25 per bonus attack damage) physical damage, and the subsequent attacks explode, each dealing 90% of their damage to surrounding targets (depending on level).
Then, Aphelios attacks all champions hit with his main-hand weapon, applies the unique effect of Aphelios' main-han weapon.
Severum: Aphelios restores 250 / 350 / 450 health (depending on level).
Questions About Aphelios
Latest Questions
Ability Upgrades
You've used the same ability set up as other champions but Aphelios UI is completely different. You upgrade only three things; his Attack Damage, his Attack Speed and his Lethality, not his abilities. Wouldn't it be better to update this so new...
I need to get better.
I have recently started to get smashed by everyone in every role I play as I have started to reach my placement stage, I use to play Aphelios mid (I know he's a bot laner) and ashe bot, but now i've started to play aatrox to see if he's any...
