Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
The Aphelios Warwick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Warwick, 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 Warwick. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Warwick helps Aphelios perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Warwick, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Warwick does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Warwick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Warwick. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Warwick.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Warwick on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Warwick does a decent job of protecting Aphelios during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Aphelios that will always be his top ally. Yet, Warwick is a very typical ally for Aphelios. By playing on the same side as Aphelios, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 49.1%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Aphelios and Warwick that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Warwick has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when finding Warwick allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Aphelios players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Aphelios and Warwick together, you probably will not be providing your side much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Warwick ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to work well with Warwick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Aphelios and Warwick synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios included at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Warwick than with most other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 49.1% when playing alongside Warwick with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Aphelios players 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 resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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