Aphelios with Zed
How to Synergize Aphelios and Zed
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Aphelios Zed Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Zed
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Zed
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Aphelios Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zed helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Zed, he gets a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Zed doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Zed on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Aphelios during team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Zed
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect companion for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Zed is a not very good ally for Aphelios. By being on the same side as Aphelios, he decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 47.5%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Aphelios and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zed has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when arranging Zed comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Aphelios and Zed together, you will not be giving your other teammates much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to work well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Zed synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zed than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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. Out of all the runes players chose for Aphelios and Zed pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Zed with Aphelios are given for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.