Aphelios vs Yasuo Counter Pick

Wind Wall blocks every enemy projectile for four seconds, and since Aphelios‘s basic attacks and most weapon abilities are projectiles, Yasuo can wall off entire fights on cooldown. Across 506 games on patch 16.13.1, Aphelios wins just 42.9%, rated Hard for him.

Both champions carry high difficulty scores, 10 for Aphelios and 10 for Yasuo as well, so this is not a simple-kit-beats-complex-kit story. Yasuo’s Steel Tempest builds Gathering Storm stacks that fire a knockup on the third hit, and Last Breath turns any airborne target into a guaranteed follow-up, a combo that closes his 175-range disadvantage against Aphelios’s 550 in a single dash through Sweeping Blade.

Way of the Wanderer grants Yasuo a shield that charges while he is moving, so kiting alone does not remove his defenses the way it does against slower opponents. Aphelios has no dash of his own to escape once Last Breath activates, and his weapon-cycling kit needs uninterrupted time to threaten real damage, time Wind Wall and repeated dashes rarely allow him in this specific pairing. Yasuo also draws from Flow rather than Mana, so unlike most lanes Aphelios plays, resource pressure never becomes part of the equation here, and Yasuo’s 2,460 health at level 18 against Aphelios’s 2,334 gives him a slight durability edge to go with his mobility.