Aphelios with Zeri
How to Synergize Aphelios and Zeri
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Aphelios Zeri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Zeri
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Zeri
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Aphelios Zeri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zeri as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Zeri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zeri, 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 Zeri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zeri helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Zeri, he gets a noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Zeri doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Zeri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zeri. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zeri.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Zeri on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zeri does a poor job of protecting Aphelios during teamfights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Zeri?
There is no perfect synergy for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Zeri is a terrible teammate for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, they decreases their win rate by -6.4% to 42.2%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Aphelios and Zeri that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zeri has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be cautious when finding Zeri comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Aphelios and Zeri together, you will not be giving your side very much AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Zeri teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios to synergize with Zeri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Aphelios and Zeri synergy build include Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Zeri than with many other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 42.2% when playing alongside Zeri with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 42.2% win rate overall.
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