Aphelios with Kalista
How to Synergize Aphelios and Kalista
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Aphelios Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Kalista
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Aphelios Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kalista helps Aphelios perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Kalista, he sees a big decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Kalista doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Kalista on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kalista.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Kalista on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Kalista does a decent job of covering Aphelios during team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Kalista
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Kalista is a very bad ally for Aphelios. By locking into the same team as Aphelios, she drops their win rate by -6.0% to 42.6%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Aphelios and Kalista that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kalista has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when arranging Kalista teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Aphelios and Kalista together, you will not be giving your team very much tankyness. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kalista teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to work well with Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Aphelios and Kalista synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kalista than with most other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 42.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kalista with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Aphelios players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 42.6% win rate overall.
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