Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Azir Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Azir sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aphelios helps Azir perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Azir is paired with Aphelios, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Aphelios supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Azir is played together with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Azir plays with Aphelios on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Aphelios does a poor job of covering Azir in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Azir that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Aphelios is a not very good ally for Azir. By locking into the same team as Azir, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Azir and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Azir. That means you must be cautious when arranging Aphelios comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Azir and Aphelios together, you probably will not be providing your team very much protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir to work well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Azir and Aphelios synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Void Staff. When Azir included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Azir players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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