Aphelios with Varus
How to Synergize Aphelios and Varus
based on 367 Aphelios with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Varus Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Varus
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Varus
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Aphelios Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Varus helps Aphelios perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Varus, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Varus doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Varus.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Varus on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Varus does a poor job of protecting Aphelios during team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Varus
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Varus?
There is no one best companion for Aphelios that will always be his best synergy. However, Varus is a not very good ally for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 46.6%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Aphelios and Varus that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Varus comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Aphelios and Varus together, you probably will not be providing your team very much magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Varus ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to pair well with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Aphelios and Varus synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Varus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 46.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Varus with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against 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. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Varus with Aphelios are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.