Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Aphelios Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Samira helps Aphelios perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Samira, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Samira does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Samira on the same side, 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 Samira.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Samira on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Samira does a poor job of covering Aphelios during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Aphelios that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Samira is a very bad companion for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, she drops their win rate by -7.7% to 40.9%. This proves that there is a terrible synergy between Aphelios and Samira that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Samira has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Samira allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Aphelios and Samira together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Samira ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Aphelios to work well with Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Aphelios and Samira synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Samira than with most other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 40.9% when playing alongside Samira with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Aphelios players should equip 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 runes players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 40.9% win rate overall.
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