Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
The Aphelios Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Thresh helps Aphelios perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Thresh, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Thresh provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Thresh 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 synergisticly with Thresh.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Thresh on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Thresh does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Aphelios that will always be his best ally. However, Thresh is a very typical teammate for Aphelios. By playing on the same side as Aphelios, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 48.7%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Aphelios and Thresh that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Thresh has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be cautious when arranging Thresh comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by pairing Aphelios and Thresh together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Thresh teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to pair well with Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Aphelios and Thresh synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Aphelios included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Thresh than with many other common builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 48.7% helping carry Thresh with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.7% winrate overall.
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