Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
The Aphelios Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akshan helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Akshan, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This could indicate that Akshan doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Akshan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akshan.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Akshan on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Akshan does a poor job of covering Aphelios in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Aphelios that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Akshan is a very bad ally for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, they drops their win rate by -3.6% to 45.0%. This proves that there is a terrible synergy between Aphelios and Akshan that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when lining up Akshan allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Aphelios players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Aphelios and Akshan together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Akshan ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to pair well with Akshan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Akshan synergy build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Akshan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 45.0% when playing alongside Akshan with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Aphelios players should take 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 builds players chose for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.0% winrate overall.
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