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K'Sante with Aphelios

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How to Synergize K'Sante and Aphelios

based on 1,511 K'Sante with Aphelios pairs
Win Rate
46.8 %
K/D/A
1.91
Pick Rate
2.5 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers take in data from from millions of LoL matches directly from Riot Games each week. K'Sante has fought alongside Aphelios in 1511 recently played, competitive matches. By accumulating so much great data straight from the hosts of League of Legends, we are sure that we can provide you with robust, accurate builds to help K'Sante play with Aphelios. It is relatively rare for K'Sante to play alongside Aphelios as allies. This has only happened in about 2.5% of games with K'Sante.

K'Sante Aphelios Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, K'Sante does a pathetic job of teaming up with Aphelios. Typically, they wins a poor 46.8% of the time the champs play on the same team. If you want to maximize your potential as K'Sante when playing with Aphelios by learning how to better synergize your playstyle with him, then review the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best K'Sante vs Aphelios Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's ShieldHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Ruby CrystalNull-Magic Mantle

Core K'Sante Items

~22 Mins
Unending DespairSunfire AegisJak'Sho, The Protean

Optional Items

ThornmailKaenic RookernHollow RadianceIceborn Gauntlet

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for K'Sante to level upq
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Second ability for K'Sante to level upw
>
Last skill for K'Sante to max oute

Runes

ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishConditioningOvergrowth
PrecisionTriumphLegend: Tenacity
Attack SpeedHealth ScalingHealth Scaling
K'Sante's passive ability p
K'Sante's q ability q
K'Sante's w ability w
K'Sante's e ability e
K'Sante's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
Q
5
Q
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R
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Q
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Aphelios

Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Aphelios

Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.

Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.

Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).

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.

K'Sante Aphelios Synergy Stats

K'Sante Image
Win Rate
46.8 %
VS
Win Rate
53.2 %
Aphelios Image
4.5
< Kills >
4.8
5.5
< Deaths >
5.6
6
< Assists >
6.3
1.04
< Killing Sprees >
1.1
172
< Minions Killed >
172
0.04
< Dragons Killed >
0.04
0.37
< Inhibitors >
0.4
13,700
< Physical Damage >
14,146
3,349
< Magic Damage >
3,470
1,506
< True Damage >
1,562
18,555
< Damage Dealt >
19,180
30,724
< Damage Taken >
31,239
10,846
< Gold Earned >
10,998
2.05
< Towers >
2.1
0.01
< Baron Takedowns >
0.01
4,631
< Total Healing >
4,840
14,647
< Experience >
14,813
15
< Vision Score >
16
8
< Wards Placed >
8
1,013
< Time Dealing CC >
1,061

How to Play with Aphelios as K'Sante in LoL

The K'Sante Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.

Overall, K'Sante sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aphelios helps K'Sante perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.

When K'Sante plays on the same team as Aphelios, they sees a little drop in their full damage output. This difference may indicate that Aphelios does not help protection for them to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played together with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.

Moreover, when K'Sante plays with Aphelios on the same team, they typically takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting K'Sante during teamfights.

Synergies between K'Sante and Aphelios

Damage Types Compared

K'Sante
Aphelios
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

K'Sante
Aphelios

Is K'Sante better when played alongside Aphelios?

There is no top companion for K'Sante that will 100% of the time be their best ally. However, overall, Aphelios is a very typical companion for K'Sante. By being on the same side as K'Sante, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 46.8%. This proves that there is only a small bond between K'Sante and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than alone.

Aphelios has a greater difficulty than K'Sante. That means you must be careful when finding Aphelios allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.

Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.

Although, by bringing K'Sante and Aphelios together, you may not be giving your team enough support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.

Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.

Additional Information for K'Sante Players

How We Calculated Our K'Sante Aphelios Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing K'Sante and Aphelios, we analyzed 1,511 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair K'Sante with Aphelios comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante in order to synergize with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.

The most important items to prioritize in your K'Sante and Aphelios synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.

To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, K'Sante players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for K'Sante and Aphelios pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.8% winrate overall.

If you would like to view K'Sante and Aphelios cooperations tips and builds for a a particular skill level, feel free to select one from the selection menu displayed above. By default, the statistics and strategies shown are computed using all games finished with these champions.