Naafiri with Aphelios
How to Synergize Naafiri and Aphelios
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Naafiri Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Aphelios
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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.
Naafiri Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri 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, Naafiri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Naafiri perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri plays on the same team as Aphelios, they observes a little decrease in their full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Aphelios does not help cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Aphelios on the same side, they on average receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Naafiri in teamfights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Naafiri that will always be their ideal teammate. However, Aphelios is a relatively poor teammate for Naafiri. By locking into the same side as Naafiri, he lowers their win rate by -2.6% to 47.6%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Naafiri and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means Naafiri players must be very careful when arranging Aphelios teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Naafiri players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Naafiri and Aphelios together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to work well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Naafiri and Aphelios synergy build include Guardian Angel, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three great items in their build, they did a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Aphelios with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
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