Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
The Aphelios Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yasuo helps Aphelios perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is paired with Yasuo, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Yasuo does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Yasuo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yasuo.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Yasuo on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of covering Aphelios during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Yasuo is a very typical companion for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 49.0%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Aphelios and Yasuo that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Yasuo has a lower difficulty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Yasuo comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, Aphelios players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Aphelios and Yasuo together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Yasuo ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to work well with Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Aphelios and Yasuo synergy build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Yasuo than with most other common builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 49.0% helping carry Yasuo with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Aphelios players should use 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 used for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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