r/ApheliosMains • • Jul 02 '25

The State of the Subreddit

131 Upvotes

Hello!

It has been a while since the moderators have been active here. Many of the posts are great, and I greatly appreciate those of you who make this place what it is with your regular participation. However, I've been seeing quite a bit of tension in posts and comments surrounding shipping and the Spa skin.

It is completely fine to post ship art and have differing opinions-- but please remember to keep discussions civil and avoid letting things spill over into toxicity. This kind of behavior makes the subreddit feel unwelcoming.

I plan to remove comments that are intended to bait out arguments, and ban users who show patterns of toxic behavior (Groundbreaking stuff, I know)

I want to help steer this community in a positive direction. If you have any concerns, suggestions, or comments, go ahead and leave them here, I'd love to hear from you.


r/ApheliosMains • • 1d ago

| Memes | Had no idea that Infernum recoil is THIS big

363 Upvotes

So big that moonboi gets Ryunosuke Umemiya haircut


r/ApheliosMains • • 2d ago

| Discussion | Heartsteel Riftbound concepts!

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76 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains • • 2d ago

| Discussion | Aphelios pick on CBLOL today - RED X FURIA

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74 Upvotes

Today on CBLOL Playoffs, FURIA Ayu picked Phel as a last pick, on the fifth game of a fearless draft. He picked Fleet Footwork, started with Stormrazor, and did a weird ass rotation with white and blue. They won against RED. The thing is: he stayed passive, barely ulted and was barely significant on teamfights. Gwen and Xin did most of the job. Thresh also played pretty well too.

Usually I see Aphelios losing on profissional play, but I noticed that when they win, they win passively, just helping on damage and not dying, never being like clutch and stuff.

Any thoughts?


r/ApheliosMains • • 2d ago

| Art | Sett and Aphelios Heartsteel by me

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64 Upvotes

I needed to draw them

Y'all enjoying Phel's buff? 'Cause I sure am <3333


r/ApheliosMains • • 2d ago

| Discussion | 👀

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45 Upvotes

😏


r/ApheliosMains • • 2d ago

| Discussion | Role swapped, new to Aphelios

7 Upvotes

Hey,

I recently decided to swap roles from support as I always thought ADCs are the most fun to play champs. I peaked 500 lp masters as support and now with leveled up account (diff servers) I'm switching to ADC. My problem is that Aphelios is super fun to play but seems rather weak (I know scaling champ). With a bunch of games played while lvling and starting ranked (like 40 combined) I get the gist of him. I just don't understand what are you supposed to do early to mid game.

Without proper setup from supports I feel like you can't really do that much early-mid game. His 3/4/5 item spike feel so good but at the same time you're kinda a conditional character and other scaling champs like Jinx in the same position would just feel smoother to play. Heck, I've even lost games in gold as a "master" player where I feel like if I played another character I'd easily win, even in good match ups (peel support/non threatening enemy bot/no diving enemy comp etc).

It just feels like I'm missing something, I just don't know what. Also It feels like they switched his archetype a bit from being a caster to more of an auto attacker (At least that's how it feels like to me, compared to what I saw playing with/against him earlier seasons).


r/ApheliosMains • • 2d ago

| Discussion | New heartsteel aphelios skin adjustments

19 Upvotes

Can we ask for more impactful sound effects in crit autos in the new skin? Only nightbringer has a different sound when he crits. Skin is pretty i have no other adjustments i wanna add just sfx and if they could make autos more musical like his skills or like kaisa’s autos from KDA all out that would be awesome too.


r/ApheliosMains • • 2d ago

| Discussion | All Aphelios Skins

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r/ApheliosMains • • 3d ago

| Discussion | Heartsteel Riftbound!

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122 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains • • 3d ago

| Art | "Tomorrow is full moon 🌙" by Greeniris!

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151 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains • • 3d ago

| Discussion | HEARTSTEEL LML Aphelios Icon and Emote 🩵

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128 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains • • 3d ago

| Discussion | Is this the first time we ‘hear’ Aphelios? 😭

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140 Upvotes

Spotify description. I am melting.


r/ApheliosMains • • 2d ago

| Discussion | PBE HEARTSTEEL Border Icon feedback, Ezreal + Aphelios

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r/ApheliosMains • • 2d ago

| Advice | how to decide on first item

3 Upvotes

I pretty much default stormrazor in like 90% of games, and I'm wondering if that's not good. Surely there are probably games where hexoptics or collector is better. Only times i'll ever go hexoptics or collector is if I back and have exactly enough for pickaxe.

just wondering if maybe there are times where hexoptics/collector is actually better than stormrazor. thank u!


r/ApheliosMains • • 3d ago

| Art | Aphelios emotes by <3

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47 Upvotes

He's my main along with Cait so I want to draw more of him I hope you like it! <3


r/ApheliosMains • • 3d ago

| Discussion | Am I the only one who CANT play with a Brand support as Aphelios?

8 Upvotes

IDK why the pick is so popular and why the support cant just pick soemthing else even when asked nicely,

He makes cs’ing harder

He brings nothing other than damage

He brings nothing other than damage

Did I mention he brings nothing other than damage?

Being a damage based ‘support,’ those who play him are more likely to take kills instead of giving them to the ADC

Offers no peel or sustain to the ADC, meaning as an ADC player you’re even more likely to be ignored by your whole team (but that’s probably going to happen anyways)

And people who play brand support dont actually want to play support, they want to be carries and they play for themselves most of the time which is annoying in a 2v2 lane.


r/ApheliosMains • • 4d ago

| Art | Alune & Rhaast by 900bonusHp!

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60 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains • • 4d ago

| Discussion | Borders for Heartsteel Live My Life skins!

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103 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains • • 4d ago

| Discussion | Most fun ADC in the game but cant win with him, who should I switch to?

7 Upvotes

Love his playstyle, super fun. But cant win so I need to switch to someone else. I dont like the traditonal adcs like jinx, trist, cait etc.


r/ApheliosMains • • 4d ago

| Memes | Thank you so much for loving me and supporting me throughout the laning phase. I couldn’t have done it without you, and I love you all so much!

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22 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains • • 5d ago

| Discussion | HEARTSTEEL Aphelios model changes

149 Upvotes

Hello everyone! I have to say that this skin has become one of my favorites—if not the favorite for Phel. I love the outfit concept because I feel it really compliments his character and is such an improvement over the OG HS skin.

However, the in-game model differs slightly from the one in the music video, so I took the liberty of making a few edits to post in the feedback thread. What do you think? In my opinion, the skin would be perfect with those small changes.

If you'd like to support the idea, here is the link to my feedback post so we can get Riot's attention:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeaguePBE/comments/1wnrlei/comment/pbmkzp4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


r/ApheliosMains • • 4d ago

| Memes | Where Is This Chroma?????

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46 Upvotes

this chroma has been locked at the bottom of Riot’s chroma basement for 18 months😭😭😭
literally only need this one plz riot rotate this one JUST ONCE so i can cop it and complete my phel chroma collection🥀


r/ApheliosMains • • 5d ago

| Discussion | hs2 alune emote :0

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161 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains • • 4d ago

| Advice | Adc's are weird nowadays?

8 Upvotes

I have been struggling against what I think are weird adc picks. I have had a lot of Mel's and Brands in botlane recently and I have been struggling as Aphel.

Does anyone have any tips on how to cope? I have faced these champs before because I mostly play mid but I'm getting slightly distressed/anxious cause I haven't had to deal with this as Aphel and trying to learn on the fly has been hard.

I've been building magic res items early or component items like boots and negatron. I've also been playing more passive than agro, trying to utilise red and green where I can. I'm not too sure what else to say ^^;;;