Galio with Aphelios
How to Synergize Galio and Aphelios
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Galio Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Galio vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Galio with Aphelios
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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.
Galio Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Galio in LoL
The Galio 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, Galio sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aphelios helps Galio perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Galio plays on the same team as Aphelios, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change could signal that Aphelios doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played alongside Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Galio plays with Aphelios on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Galio during teamfights.
Synergies between Galio and Aphelios
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Is Galio better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no top champion pairing for Galio that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Aphelios is a very typical companion for Galio. By playing on the same side as Galio, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 50.1%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Galio and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Galio. That means you should be cautious when arranging Aphelios teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Galio players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Galio and Aphelios together, you will not be giving your team much AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Galio to work well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Galio and Aphelios synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, Galio boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when playing alongside Aphelios with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Galio players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Galio and Aphelios pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Aphelios with Galio are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.