Diana with Aphelios
How to Synergize Diana and Aphelios
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Diana Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Diana and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Diana with Aphelios
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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.
Diana Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Diana in LoL
The Diana 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, Diana sees a very large drop in her 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 Diana perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Diana plays on the same team as Aphelios, she sees a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Aphelios doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Diana is played alongside Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Additionally, when Diana plays with Aphelios on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Diana during team fights.
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Is Diana better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal companion for Diana that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. However, Aphelios is a relatively poor companion for Diana. By locking into the same team as Diana, he drops their win rate by -1.6% to 48.4%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Diana and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Diana. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Aphelios comrades to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Diana players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Diana and Aphelios together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much crowd control. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Diana in order to work well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Diana and Aphelios synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Diana incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Diana players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Diana and Aphelios pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Aphelios with Diana are given for every ranked division. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.