Leona with Aphelios
How to Synergize Leona and Aphelios
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Leona Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Leona with Aphelios
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aphelios helps Leona perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona is an ally to Aphelios, she sees a little drop in her full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Aphelios doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together 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 synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Aphelios on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Leona in teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Leona that will no matter what be her best teammate. Yet, Aphelios is a below average teammate for Leona. By locking into the same team as Leona, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 50.6%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Leona and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means Leona players should be careful when arranging Aphelios allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Leona and Aphelios together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios ally, you need to focus on maximizing your 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
If you would like to truly master Leona in order to work well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Leona and Aphelios synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona combined at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with most other common item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 50.6% helping carry Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Leona and Aphelios pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Aphelios with Leona are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.