Aurelion Sol vs Aphelios Counter Pick

Aphelios carries the maximum possible difficulty rating in the game, a 10, built around five different Lunari Weapons that rotate through The Hitman and the Seer and change what Weapon Abilities and Moonlight Vigil actually do from fight to fight. That complexity doesn’t translate into a favorable matchup against Aurelion Sol, whose own difficulty rating of 7 is comparatively straightforward by comparison: land Breath of Light’s channel, pull with Singularity, and cash in Stardust stacks from Cosmic Creator.

Both champions fight from the same 550 range, so neither holds a distance edge, and the outcome comes down to who forces the first mistake. Aphelios has to track which gun is queued next through Phase and the Weapon Queue System while also dodging Falling Star, Aurelion Sol’s stun-on-impact ultimate. Across 224 games on patch 16.13.1, Aurelion Sol wins 58.9% against Aphelios, rated Easy, with Aphelios’s own mechanical ceiling working against him whenever the fight opens early. Both champions even start with an identical 600 health at level one, though Aphelios pulls ahead by level 18, 2,334 to Aurelion Sol’s 2,130, adding a durability edge to a kit that already asks a lot of whoever plays it.