Aphelios with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Aphelios and Blitzcrank
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Aphelios Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Blitzcrank
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Blitzcrank Will Play
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Aphelios Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, 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 Blitzcrank. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Blitzcrank helps Aphelios perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is an ally to Blitzcrank, he sees a clear improvement in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Blitzcrank supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Blitzcrank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Blitzcrank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Blitzcrank.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Blitzcrank on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Blitzcrank does a decent job of covering Aphelios during team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Blitzcrank
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no ideal synergy for Aphelios that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Blitzcrank is a pretty good teammate for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, he improves their win rate by 2.9% to 51.5%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Aphelios and Blitzcrank that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Blitzcrank has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when finding Blitzcrank allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Aphelios players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Aphelios and Blitzcrank together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Blitzcrank ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 to work well with Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Aphelios and Blitzcrank synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Blitzcrank than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Blitzcrank with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Aphelios players should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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