Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
The Aphelios Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Poppy helps Aphelios perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Poppy, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Poppy supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Poppy on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Poppy.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Poppy on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Poppy does a poor job of covering Aphelios in team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Aphelios that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Poppy is a decent companion for Aphelios. By being on the same team as Aphelios, she increases their win rate by 1.5% to 50.1%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Aphelios and Poppy that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Poppy has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Poppy allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Aphelios players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Aphelios and Poppy together, you probably will not be granting your side enough AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Poppy teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to pair well with Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Aphelios and Poppy synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Aphelios used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Poppy than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Poppy with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Aphelios players should use 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 builds players used for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Poppy with Aphelios are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.