Zed with Aphelios
How to Synergize Zed and Aphelios
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Zed Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Zed with Aphelios
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed 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 drop shows that Aphelios helps Zed perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Aphelios, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Aphelios does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Aphelios on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Zed during team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no top ally for Zed that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Aphelios is a very typical ally for Zed. By being on the same side as Zed, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Zed and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players should be very careful when lining up Aphelios allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Zed players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Zed and Aphelios together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed to pair well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Zed and Aphelios synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Aphelios with Zed are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.