Katarina with Aphelios
How to Synergize Katarina and Aphelios
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Katarina Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Aphelios
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina 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 fall shows that Aphelios helps Katarina perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Aphelios, she gets a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This difference could signal that Aphelios does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Aphelios on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Katarina that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a very typical companion for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.8%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Katarina and Aphelios that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players should be very careful when lining up Aphelios teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Katarina and Aphelios together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Katarina and Aphelios synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Katarina players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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