Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
The Aphelios Rammus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rammus, 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 Rammus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rammus helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Rammus, he observes a clear improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Rammus provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Rammus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rammus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rammus.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Rammus on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Rammus does a poor job of covering Aphelios during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Rammus is a good ally for Aphelios. By playing on the same side as Aphelios, he increases their win rate by 1.5% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Aphelios and Rammus that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Rammus has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Rammus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Aphelios and Rammus together, you may not be granting your side a lot of AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Rammus ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to pair well with Rammus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Aphelios and Rammus synergy build include Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Aphelios used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Rammus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rammus with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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 builds that we analyzed for Aphelios and Rammus pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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