Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
The Aphelios Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lee Sin helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is an ally to Lee Sin, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Lee Sin doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Lee Sin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Lee Sin.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Lee Sin on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Lee Sin does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in teamfights.
There is no ideal synergy for Aphelios that will always be his best ally. However, Lee Sin is a not very good companion for Aphelios. By playing on the same side as Aphelios, he drops their win rate by -2.8% to 45.8%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Aphelios and Lee Sin that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Lee Sin has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be cautious when lining up Lee Sin allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Aphelios and Lee Sin together, you will not be providing your team enough AP. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Lee Sin teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to synergize with Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Aphelios and Lee Sin synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Lee Sin than with most other common builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 45.8% when playing alongside Lee Sin with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.8% winrate overall.
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