Darius with Aphelios
How to Synergize Darius and Aphelios
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Darius Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Darius vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Darius with Aphelios
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Aphelios helps Darius perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius is paired with Aphelios, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This change may signal that Aphelios does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played together with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Aphelios on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Darius in teamfights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best synergy for Darius that will always be his top ally. However, Aphelios is a relatively poor companion for Darius. By locking into the same team as Darius, he decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 48.1%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Darius and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means you must be careful when lining up Aphelios comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Darius and Aphelios together, you will not be giving your side enough magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Darius in order to work well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Darius and Aphelios synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Darius incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with many other typical builds. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Darius players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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