Aphelios with Leona
How to Synergize Aphelios and Leona
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Aphelios Leona Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Leona
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Leona
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Aphelios Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Leona helps Aphelios perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Leona, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Leona helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Leona 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 Leona.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Leona on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Leona does a poor job of protecting Aphelios during teamfights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Leona?
There is no one best ally for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Leona is a pretty good ally for Aphelios. By locking into the same team as Aphelios, she raises their win rate by 2.0% to 50.6%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Aphelios and Leona that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be cautious when finding Leona comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Aphelios players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by pairing Aphelios and Leona together, you may not be providing your side a lot of magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Leona ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 synergize with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Aphelios and Leona synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Aphelios included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Leona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 50.6% helping carry Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Aphelios and Leona pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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