Aphelios with Darius
How to Synergize Aphelios and Darius
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Aphelios Darius Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Darius
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Darius
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Aphelios Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Darius helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Darius, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This may signal that Darius doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Darius on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Darius.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Darius on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Darius does a decent job of covering Aphelios in teamfights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Darius?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Aphelios that will always be his top teammate. However, Darius is a very typical teammate for Aphelios. By being on the same side as Aphelios, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.1%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Aphelios and Darius that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Darius teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Aphelios players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Aphelios and Darius together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Darius teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Darius during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Darius synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Darius than with most other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing alongside Darius with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against 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. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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