Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Rumble Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rumble sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aphelios helps Rumble perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rumble is an ally to Aphelios, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Aphelios doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played together with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Additionally, when Rumble plays with Aphelios on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Rumble during teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Rumble that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Aphelios is a not very good teammate for Rumble. By locking into the same side as Rumble, he decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 47.7%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Rumble and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a lower difficulty than Rumble. That means Rumble players don't need to be very careful when finding Aphelios allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Rumble and Aphelios together, you may not be providing your team a lot of crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Rumble in order to synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Rumble and Aphelios synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Aphelios than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rumble boasted an average win rate of 47.7% when playing alongside Aphelios with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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