Poppy with Aphelios
How to Synergize Poppy and Aphelios
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Poppy Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Aphelios
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy 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 decrease shows that Aphelios helps Poppy perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy is an ally to Aphelios, she gets a little drop in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Aphelios does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played alongside Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Aphelios on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Poppy during team fights.
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best ally for Poppy that will always be her best ally. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a very typical ally for Poppy. By playing on the same team as Poppy, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Poppy and Aphelios that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Poppy. That means Poppy players should be careful when arranging Aphelios teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Poppy players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Poppy and Aphelios together, you may not be providing your team a lot of magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Poppy to work well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Poppy and Aphelios synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Poppy included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Aphelios with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Poppy players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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