Hello fellow ADCs!

The great Vapora Dark has written an amazing guide for Aphelios. This is even the reason I started playing the champion and started to feel him after 2 games in Practice Tool. Vapora Dark also has lots of youtube footage, if you want to see positioning, spacing, damage trading etc. I really do not have to add much here, but I want to share 4 of my own discoveries:

1. The difficulty Level 3/3 in the client is wrong. Aphelios is a 2/3 just like Jinx. I find it way harder to hit the Xayah Ultimate or to hit every Q with Ezreal and Sivir. Why is Ezreal not a 3/3? Low armor, expensive Trinity, no crit build and you must hit everything for a 47-50% winrate. Meanwhile, Aphelios just chills, then destroys everything. Just like Kai'Sa or Jinx. If you like those two, please try out Aphelios! :)

2. Buy Plated Steelcaps. Yun Tal (and in some cases the rune Legend Alacrity) will give you enough Attack Speed. But with the help of Plated Steelcaps you can kill a Viego or Master Yi and also casually destroy the enemy ADC who build Berserker's. That 25 Armor and 10% Damage reduction is insane. Keep in mind, that the Riot Balancing team reduces the armor of ADCs Level 1 all the time. This creates such a huge advantage for you. Especially in low elo, where everybody is arrogant and greedy and think they can one shot the ADC casually on the fly. Those Junglers will be angry, when you predict their gank and just kill them 1 v 1.

3. Use items according to situation. If there is a Lux, Hwei, Mel just build Maw of Malmortius and then Berserker's for the missing Attack Speed, since you do not have Yun Tal in this kind of scenario. Also, try Thornmail vs Viego, Master Yi, Naafiri etc. They will jump on you and then find out ... Thornmail+Severum+Crescendum is such a powerful combo. You can even hide in bush and jump on a target to catch somebody.

4. Gravitum (purple weapon)is not useless. You can root an enemy champion on the run. Then your Assassin team mate can dash upon target or the midlaner can get the extra seconds for the AOE damage. Mel, Hwei, Veigar, Amumu will always use that opportunity. In case of doubt, use Gravitum vs Turrets or vs Dragons. Yes, you want to have Infernum for the Ultimate, Calibrum for poke and Crescendum/ Severum for the Aphelios highlight plays, but Gravitum is sleeper op in some situations. Imagine, an ADC who can stun somebody and then go all in with Crescendum. With the addition of Steelcaps and the Yun Tal, IE, LDR combo, this is a nightmare for the enemy ADC.

Tips For Laning Phase:

- poke the enemy bot lane with Calibrum
- try to last hit minions that are near your own turret with Severum
- you do not want to have Severum/ Gravitum at the same time
- sword and double daggers can help with farming
- remember to adapt the boots: Plated is standard, Berserkers when you bought Maw of Malmortius vs 2 Mages bot to get the attack speed, and Swiftness when there is a Pyke or Mel or Blitzcrank and you want to get out of their range

Tips for late game:

- make sure that you always have a trump card ready in your sleeves. You want to switch to Crescendum/ Infernum whenever a Dragon fight or Baron fight starts. This way you can use your Ultimate and then get the triple kill to win the game. As Aphelios this is your main winning condition: shredder and delete everything with Crescendum when they least expect it. So be ready at all times, check the timers, predict the pathing of all 9 champions, predict the future. Once the moon shines - attack with cold precision.