Aphelios with Akali
How to Synergize Aphelios and Akali
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Aphelios Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Akali
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Akali
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Aphelios Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aphelios sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Akali helps Aphelios perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is an ally to Akali, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Akali supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Akali on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Akali does a poor job of covering Aphelios during team fights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Akali?
There is no perfect companion for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Akali is a very typical ally for Aphelios. By being on the same side as Aphelios, she lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 48.5%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Aphelios and Akali that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Akali has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Akali allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Aphelios players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Aphelios and Akali together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of cover. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Akali ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios in order to work well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Aphelios and Akali synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Bloodthirster. When Aphelios used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Akali than with many other common builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Akali with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Aphelios and Akali pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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