Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
The Aphelios Udyr synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Udyr, 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 Udyr. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Udyr helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Udyr, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Udyr provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Udyr on the same team, 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 alongside Udyr.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Udyr on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Udyr does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Aphelios that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Udyr is a not very good teammate for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 47.3%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Aphelios and Udyr that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Udyr has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when finding Udyr comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Aphelios and Udyr together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Udyr ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to work well with Udyr during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Aphelios and Udyr synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Udyr than with most other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 47.3% when playing alongside Udyr with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.3% win rate overall.
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