Samira with Aphelios
How to Synergize Samira and Aphelios
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Samira Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Samira vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Samira and Aphelios
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.
Samira Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Samira in LoL
The Samira 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, Samira sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Aphelios helps Samira perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Samira is paired with Aphelios, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Aphelios supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Samira 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.
Moreover, when Samira plays with Aphelios on the same side, she usually takes more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Aphelios does a poor job of covering Samira during team fights.
Synergies between Samira and Aphelios
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Is Samira better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no top champion pairing for Samira that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. However, Aphelios is a very bad ally for Samira. By playing on the same team as Samira, he lowers their win rate by -7.8% to 40.9%. This proves that there is a terrible synergy between Samira and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Samira. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Aphelios allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Samira players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Samira and Aphelios together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Samira to work well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Samira and Aphelios synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Edge of Finality. When Samira included at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 40.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 40.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Aphelios with Samira are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.