Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Xayah 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, Xayah sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Aphelios helps Xayah perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xayah tries to synergize with Aphelios, she observes a great improvement in her complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Aphelios provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played alongside 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.
Moreover, when Xayah plays with Aphelios on the same team, she typically takes much more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Aphelios does a poor job of protecting Xayah in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Xayah that will 100% of the time be her top ally. However, overall, Aphelios is a good companion for Xayah. By being on the same team as Xayah, he improves their win rate by 2.3% to 50.0%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Xayah and Aphelios that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Xayah. That means Xayah players need to be cautious when arranging Aphelios allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, Xayah players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Xayah and Aphelios together, you may not be giving your side much magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Xayah to synergize with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Xayah and Aphelios synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Stormrazor. When Xayah used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Xayah and Aphelios pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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