Aatrox with Aphelios
How to Synergize Aatrox and Aphelios
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Aatrox Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Aatrox vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Aphelios
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Aatrox Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Aatrox perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aatrox plays on the same team as Aphelios, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Aphelios doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played together with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Aphelios on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Aatrox in team fights.
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best champion pairing for Aatrox that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Aphelios is a not very good companion for Aatrox. By playing on the same side as Aatrox, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 48.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Aatrox and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Aatrox. That means Aatrox players must be cautious when lining up Aphelios comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Aatrox and Aphelios together, you may not be providing your side much magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aatrox in order to synergize with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Aatrox and Aphelios synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Aatrox included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average winrate of 48.4% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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