Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Tristana 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, Tristana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aphelios helps Tristana perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tristana is an ally to Aphelios, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Aphelios supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played together with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Tristana plays with Aphelios on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Aphelios does a poor job of covering Tristana during team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Tristana that will no matter what be her best teammate. Yet, Aphelios is a very typical teammate for Tristana. By playing on the same team as Tristana, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 48.6%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Tristana and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Tristana. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Aphelios allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Tristana players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Tristana and Aphelios together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough support. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Tristana in order to work well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Tristana and Aphelios synergy build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Tristana had an average winrate of 48.6% helping carry Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Tristana and Aphelios pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
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