Aphelios with Irelia
How to Synergize Aphelios and Irelia
based on 2,258 Aphelios with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Irelia
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Aphelios Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Irelia helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Irelia, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This change may signal that Irelia does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Irelia 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 Irelia.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Irelia on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Irelia is a very typical companion for Aphelios. By playing on the same side as Aphelios, she raises their win rate by 0.1% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Aphelios and Irelia that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Irelia has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Irelia allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Aphelios and Irelia together, you will not be providing your other allies enough magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 synergize with Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Aphelios and Irelia synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Irelia than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.7% helping carry Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you 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 chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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