Aphelios with Aatrox
How to Synergize Aphelios and Aatrox
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Aphelios Aatrox Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Aatrox Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Aatrox
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Aatrox
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Aatrox Will Play
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.
Aphelios Aatrox Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aatrox as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aphelios sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aatrox helps Aphelios perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is paired with Aatrox, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Aatrox does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Aatrox on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aatrox.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Aatrox on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Aatrox does a decent job of covering Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Aatrox
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Aatrox?
There is no perfect companion for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Aatrox is a very typical ally for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.4%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Aphelios and Aatrox that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Aatrox has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be cautious when lining up Aatrox teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Aphelios and Aatrox together, you will not be granting your side much AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aatrox teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Aphelios to pair well with Aatrox during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Aphelios and Aatrox synergy build include Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Aatrox than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 48.4% helping carry Aatrox with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Aphelios and Aatrox pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Aatrox with Aphelios are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.