Shaco with Aphelios
How to Synergize Shaco and Aphelios
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Shaco Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Aphelios
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a very large drop in his 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 Shaco perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco is paired with Aphelios, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Aphelios does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Aphelios on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Shaco in teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Aphelios
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best companion for Shaco that will always be his top teammate. However, Aphelios is a very typical ally for Shaco. By playing on the same team as Shaco, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 49.8%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Shaco and Aphelios that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Shaco. That means you must be careful when finding Aphelios teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Shaco and Aphelios together, you may not be giving your other allies much cover. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to synergize with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Shaco and Aphelios synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Shaco used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 49.8% helping carry Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Shaco players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Shaco and Aphelios pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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