Alistar with Aphelios
How to Synergize Alistar and Aphelios
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Alistar Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Aphelios
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aphelios helps Alistar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is paired with Aphelios, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Aphelios does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Aphelios on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Aphelios does a poor job of covering Alistar in team fights.
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best ally for Alistar that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Aphelios is a very typical companion for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 49.2%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Alistar and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Aphelios teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Alistar and Aphelios together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Alistar to synergize with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Alistar and Aphelios synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.2% helping carry Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
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