Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
The Aphelios Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Illaoi helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Illaoi, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Illaoi does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Illaoi on the same side, 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 Illaoi.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Illaoi on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Illaoi does a poor job of covering Aphelios in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Aphelios that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Illaoi is a very typical teammate for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, she increases their win rate by 0.3% to 48.9%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Aphelios and Illaoi that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Illaoi has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Illaoi comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Aphelios players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Aphelios and Illaoi together, you may not be granting your team much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your 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 Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Aphelios and Illaoi synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Illaoi than with many other common builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take 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 combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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