Varus with Aphelios
How to Synergize Varus and Aphelios
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Varus Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Varus with Aphelios
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus sees a very large drop in his 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 Varus perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus is an ally to Aphelios, he gets a clear improvement in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Aphelios helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Aphelios on the same side, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Aphelios does a poor job of protecting Varus during team fights.
Synergies between Varus and Aphelios
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Is Varus better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Varus that will always be his top ally. However, Aphelios is a relatively poor ally for Varus. By being on the same team as Varus, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 46.6%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Varus and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means Varus players need to be careful when finding Aphelios teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Varus and Aphelios together, you will not be giving your other allies very much AP. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus to work well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Varus and Aphelios synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Varus used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with most other typical builds. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 46.6% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Varus players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Aphelios with Varus are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.