Hecarim with Aphelios
How to Synergize Hecarim and Aphelios
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Hecarim Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Aphelios
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim 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, Hecarim 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 worsening shows that Aphelios helps Hecarim perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hecarim is paired with Aphelios, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Aphelios does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played alongside Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Additionally, when Hecarim plays with Aphelios on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Hecarim in teamfights.
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no top synergy for Hecarim that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Aphelios is a not very good teammate for Hecarim. By locking into the same team as Hecarim, he drops their win rate by -2.6% to 45.9%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Hecarim and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Hecarim. That means Hecarim players should be careful when enlisting Aphelios allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Hecarim players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Hecarim and Aphelios together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Hecarim in order to pair well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Hecarim and Aphelios synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Hecarim included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average win rate of 45.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Hecarim players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.9% win rate overall.
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