Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
The Aphelios Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zoe helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is paired with Zoe, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Zoe does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Zoe on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zoe. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zoe.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Zoe on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zoe does a poor job of covering Aphelios in teamfights.
There is no ideal synergy for Aphelios that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Zoe is a very typical teammate for Aphelios. By playing on the same side as Aphelios, she lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Aphelios and Zoe that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zoe has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when arranging Zoe allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Aphelios and Zoe together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zoe ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to synergize with Zoe during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Aphelios and Zoe synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Zoe than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Zoe with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating 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 sets players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Zoe with Aphelios are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.