Aphelios with Annie
How to Synergize Aphelios and Annie
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Aphelios Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Annie
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Annie
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Aphelios Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 Annie. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Annie helps Aphelios perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Annie, he gets a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Annie does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Annie on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Annie.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Annie on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Annie does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Annie?
There is no perfect ally for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Annie is a relatively poor companion for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, she lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 47.5%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Aphelios and Annie that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Annie has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when finding Annie comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, Aphelios players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Aphelios and Annie together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of engage potential. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Annie ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios to work well with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Annie synergy build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Annie than with most other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when playing alongside Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Aphelios players should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Aphelios and Annie pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
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