Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Soraka 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, Soraka sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aphelios helps Soraka perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Soraka tries to synergize with Aphelios, she observes a little drop in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Aphelios doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Soraka is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Soraka plays with Aphelios on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Soraka during team fights.
There is no one best companion for Soraka that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a very typical teammate for Soraka. By being on the same team as Soraka, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 49.1%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Soraka and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Soraka. That means Soraka players need to be careful when enlisting Aphelios teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Soraka players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by bringing Soraka and Aphelios together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of engage potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Soraka to work well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Soraka and Aphelios synergy build include Redemption, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Soraka used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Soraka boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Soraka players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Soraka and Aphelios pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Aphelios with Soraka are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.