Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
The Aphelios Galio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Galio, 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 Galio. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Galio helps Aphelios perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Galio, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Galio does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Galio on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Galio.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Galio on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Galio does a decent job of covering Aphelios in teamfights.
There is no top ally for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Galio is a good companion for Aphelios. By being on the same side as Aphelios, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good synergy between Aphelios and Galio that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Galio has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be cautious when lining up Galio allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Aphelios players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Aphelios and Galio together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Galio teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to work well with Galio during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Aphelios and Galio synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Aphelios bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Galio than with many other common builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 50.1% when playing alongside Galio with this build.
To have the best probability 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 sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.1% winrate overall.
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