Aphelios with Xerath
How to Synergize Aphelios and Xerath
based on 3,201 Aphelios with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Xerath
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Aphelios Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xerath helps Aphelios perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is an ally to Xerath, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Xerath does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xerath.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Xerath on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Aphelios during teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Xerath
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no perfect companion for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Xerath is a very typical companion for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 48.5%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Aphelios and Xerath that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Xerath has a lower difficulty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when lining up Xerath teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Aphelios and Xerath together, you will not be granting your side enough engage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to work well with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Aphelios and Xerath synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Xerath than with many other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you 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 runes we have analyed for Aphelios and Xerath pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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