Aphelios with Hecarim
How to Synergize Aphelios and Hecarim
based on 2,216 Aphelios with Hecarim pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Hecarim Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Hecarim
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Aphelios Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Hecarim helps Aphelios perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is an ally to Hecarim, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This may signal that Hecarim does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Hecarim 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 alongside Hecarim.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Hecarim on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no top champion pairing for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Hecarim is a relatively poor ally for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he drops their win rate by -2.7% to 45.9%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Aphelios and Hecarim that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Hecarim has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Hecarim comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, Aphelios players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Aphelios and Hecarim together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much magic damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Hecarim ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to work well with Hecarim during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Hecarim synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Aphelios combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Hecarim than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 45.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Hecarim with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you 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 chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.9% win rate overall.
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