Aphelios with Orianna
How to Synergize Aphelios and Orianna
based on 1,221 Aphelios with Orianna pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Orianna Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Orianna
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Orianna
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Orianna Will Play
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Aphelios Orianna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Orianna as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Orianna helps Aphelios perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is an ally to Orianna, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This could signal that Orianna helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Orianna 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 Orianna.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Orianna on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Orianna does a poor job of protecting Aphelios in teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Orianna
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Orianna?
There is no perfect companion for Aphelios that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Orianna is a very bad companion for Aphelios. By being on the same team as Aphelios, she decreases their win rate by -3.8% to 44.8%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Aphelios and Orianna that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Orianna has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Orianna comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Aphelios players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Aphelios and Orianna together, you may not be providing your side very much engage. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to pair well with Orianna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Aphelios and Orianna synergy build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Orianna than with many other common builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 44.8% when playing alongside Orianna with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Aphelios players should take 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 sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Orianna with Aphelios are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.