Zoe with Aphelios
How to Synergize Zoe and Aphelios
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Zoe Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Zoe vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zoe and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Zoe with Aphelios
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Zoe in LoL
The Zoe 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, Zoe sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Zoe perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zoe plays on the same team as Aphelios, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Aphelios supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zoe is played alongside Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Moreover, when Zoe plays with Aphelios on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Zoe in teamfights.
Synergies between Zoe and Aphelios
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Is Zoe better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal companion for Zoe that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a very typical teammate for Zoe. By being on the same team as Zoe, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Zoe and Aphelios that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Zoe. That means Zoe players need to be very careful when finding Aphelios teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Zoe players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Zoe and Aphelios together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of support. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios ally, you should focus on maximizing your 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
If you would like to truly master Zoe to work well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Zoe and Aphelios synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe bought at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Aphelios with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Zoe players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Aphelios with Zoe are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.