Aphelios with Naafiri
How to Synergize Aphelios and Naafiri
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Aphelios Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Naafiri
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Naafiri Will Play
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Aphelios Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Naafiri helps Aphelios perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is an ally to Naafiri, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Naafiri does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Naafiri 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 alongside Naafiri.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Naafiri on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Naafiri does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in teamfights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Aphelios that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Naafiri is a very typical ally for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, they lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Aphelios and Naafiri that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Naafiri comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Aphelios players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Aphelios and Naafiri together, you may not be giving your other allies very much magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Naafiri ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios to pair well with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Aphelios and Naafiri synergy build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Naafiri than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Naafiri with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Aphelios players should take the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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