Yasuo with Aphelios
How to Synergize Yasuo and Aphelios
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Yasuo Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Aphelios
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo 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, Yasuo sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aphelios helps Yasuo perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yasuo is paired with Aphelios, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Aphelios does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Moreover, when Yasuo plays with Aphelios on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Yasuo in team fights.
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Yasuo that will always be his best synergy. However, Aphelios is a below average teammate for Yasuo. By being on the same team as Yasuo, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Yasuo and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a lower difficulty than Yasuo. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Aphelios teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Yasuo and Aphelios together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
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 follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Yasuo to pair well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Yasuo and Aphelios synergy build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yasuo had an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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