Caitlyn with Aphelios
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Aphelios
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Caitlyn Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Aphelios
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Caitlyn Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aphelios helps Caitlyn perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn plays on the same team as Aphelios, she gets a little increase in her full damage output. This could signal that Aphelios provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Aphelios on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Aphelios does a poor job of protecting Caitlyn in teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no top synergy for Caitlyn that will always be her ideal ally. However, Aphelios is a very bad teammate for Caitlyn. By locking into the same side as Caitlyn, he decreases their win rate by -10.1% to 39.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad synergy between Caitlyn and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players must be careful when enlisting Aphelios teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Caitlyn players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Caitlyn and Aphelios together, you may not be giving your side enough magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Caitlyn in order to synergize with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Caitlyn and Aphelios synergy build include Infinity Edge, Rapid Firecannon, and Stormrazor. When Caitlyn bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average win rate of 39.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 39.2% win rate overall.
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