Aphelios with Brand
How to Synergize Aphelios and Brand
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Aphelios Brand Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Brand
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Brand
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Aphelios Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Brand helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Brand, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Brand doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Brand.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Brand on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Brand does a poor job of protecting Aphelios during team fights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Brand?
There is no one best synergy for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Brand is a very typical companion for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Aphelios and Brand that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when finding Brand teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Aphelios and Brand together, you probably will not be granting your team much protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Brand teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios to synergize with Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Aphelios and Brand synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Aphelios included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Brand than with most other common builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Brand with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood 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. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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