Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
The Aphelios Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ziggs helps Aphelios perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Ziggs, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Ziggs doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Ziggs on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ziggs.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Ziggs on the same side, he often takes more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Ziggs does a poor job of protecting Aphelios in teamfights.
There is no top ally for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Ziggs is a very bad teammate for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, he lowers their win rate by -5.8% to 42.8%. This proves that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Aphelios and Ziggs that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Ziggs has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when arranging Ziggs allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Aphelios players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Aphelios and Ziggs together, you may not be providing your team enough engage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Ziggs ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to work well with Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Aphelios and Ziggs synergy build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Ziggs than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 42.8% when playing alongside Ziggs with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against 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 rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 42.8% win rate overall.
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