Kalista with Aphelios
How to Synergize Kalista and Aphelios
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Kalista Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Aphelios
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Kalista perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista tries to synergize with Aphelios, she gets a sizeable uptick in her full damage dealt. This change may signal that Aphelios supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Aphelios on the same team, she on average receives more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Aphelios does a poor job of covering Kalista during team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Aphelios
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no top synergy for Kalista that will always be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a terrible teammate for Kalista. By being on the same team as Kalista, he drops their win rate by -4.8% to 42.6%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Kalista and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players must be very careful when finding Aphelios comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kalista and Aphelios together, you probably will not be giving your team very much tankyness. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Kalista and Aphelios synergy build include Bloodthirster, Runaan's Hurricane, and Wit's End. When Kalista combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 42.6% helping carry Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Kalista players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Kalista and Aphelios pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 42.6% win rate overall.
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