Aphelios with Kindred
How to Synergize Aphelios and Kindred
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Aphelios Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Kindred
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Aphelios Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kindred helps Aphelios perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is an ally to Kindred, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Kindred doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Kindred on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kindred.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Kindred on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Kindred does a decent job of covering Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Kindred
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no perfect synergy for Aphelios that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Kindred is a very bad companion for Aphelios. By locking into the same team as Aphelios, they decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 45.0%. This proves that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Aphelios and Kindred that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kindred has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be cautious when lining up Kindred teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Aphelios and Kindred together, you will not be giving your other allies enough magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Kindred ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to pair well with Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Kindred synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Kindred than with many other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 45.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.0% win rate overall.
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