Aphelios vs Yunara Counter Pick

Yunara actually out-ranges Aphelios, 575 to 550, and her difficulty score of 4 against his 10 makes her the far simpler champion to execute. Despite that, Aphelios still wins 51.4% of their 2,661 games on patch 16.13.1, though the computed rating lands as Even rather than clearly favoring either side.

• Passive: Vow of the First Lands adds bonus magic damage to Yunara’s critical strikes, giving her a mixed-damage threat that complicates Aphelios’s usual pure-physical itemization.
• Transcendent State: Transcend One’s Self upgrades her basic abilities, including a version of her E that becomes a full dash, adding late-fight mobility she otherwise lacks.
• Sample size: 2,661 games is a large sample by typical matchup standards, so the near-even split reflects a genuinely close matchup rather than incomplete information.

The base stats otherwise sit close together: 590 health at level one for Yunara against 600 for Aphelios, both scaling to roughly 2,400 by level 18, with identical 325 move speed for both champions, so neither side gets a clear positioning edge from the numbers alone. Both also spend Mana to cast, meaning the matchup does not swing on resource pressure the way some ADC lanes do. Aphelios’s weapon variety through Phase gives him more tools to answer whichever form Yunara takes mid-fight, which is likely what keeps his winrate narrowly above 50%.