Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
The Aphelios Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shaco helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is an ally to Shaco, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Shaco supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Shaco on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shaco. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shaco.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Shaco on the same team, he on average takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Aphelios in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Shaco is a good teammate for Aphelios. By being on the same team as Aphelios, he raises their win rate by 1.2% to 49.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Aphelios and Shaco that results in them performing better together than alone.
Shaco has a lower difficulty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Shaco comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Aphelios and Shaco together, you probably will not be providing your side much tankyness. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Shaco ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to work well with Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Shaco synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Aphelios used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Shaco than with most other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when playing alongside Shaco with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating 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 combinations players used for Aphelios and Shaco pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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