Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
The Aphelios Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, 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 Jax. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Jax helps Aphelios perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Jax, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Jax doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Jax on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Jax. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Jax.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Jax on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Jax does a decent job of protecting Aphelios during team fights.
There is no top companion for Aphelios that will always be his best synergy. However, Jax is a very typical teammate for Aphelios. By playing on the same side as Aphelios, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 49.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Aphelios and Jax that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Jax has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be cautious when lining up Jax comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Aphelios players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Aphelios and Jax together, you may not be giving your team a lot of engage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Jax ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Aphelios in order to synergize with Jax during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Aphelios and Jax synergy build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Bloodthirster. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Jax than with many other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 49.3% helping carry Jax with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating 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 sets players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
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