Vi with Aphelios
How to Synergize Vi and Aphelios
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Vi Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Vi with Aphelios
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Vi in LoL
The Vi 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, Vi 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 drop shows that Aphelios helps Vi perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vi is an ally to Aphelios, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Aphelios does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played together with Aphelios on the same team, 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 Vi plays with Aphelios on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Vi in teamfights.
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Is Vi better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal synergy for Vi that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a below average ally for Vi. By being on the same side as Vi, he decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 49.3%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Vi and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Vi. That means Vi players must be cautious when lining up Aphelios teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely observe 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.
In contrast, by grouping Vi and Aphelios together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vi in order to work well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Vi and Aphelios synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Vi included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other common item sets. In fact, Vi had an average win rate of 49.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Vi players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Vi and Aphelios pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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