Aphelios with Alistar
How to Synergize Aphelios and Alistar
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Aphelios Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Alistar
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Aphelios Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Aphelios perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Alistar, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Alistar helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Alistar 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 with Alistar.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Alistar on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Aphelios during team fights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Aphelios that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Alistar is a very typical ally for Aphelios. By locking into the same team as Aphelios, he improves their win rate by 0.6% to 49.2%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Aphelios and Alistar that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Alistar has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when arranging Alistar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Aphelios and Alistar together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to pair well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Alistar synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Alistar than with many other common builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 49.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Alistar with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Alistar with Aphelios are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.