Aphelios with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Aphelios and Caitlyn
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Aphelios Caitlyn Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Caitlyn
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Aphelios Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Caitlyn helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Caitlyn, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Caitlyn doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Caitlyn 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 synergisticly with Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Caitlyn on the same team, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Caitlyn does a poor job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Caitlyn
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Caitlyn is a very bad teammate for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, she drops their win rate by -9.4% to 39.2%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Aphelios and Caitlyn that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Caitlyn has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Caitlyn allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Aphelios and Caitlyn together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Caitlyn teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to work well with Caitlyn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Caitlyn synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Caitlyn than with many other common builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 39.2% when playing alongside Caitlyn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Aphelios players 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 builds players used for Aphelios and Caitlyn pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 39.2% win rate overall.
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