Aphelios with Garen
How to Synergize Aphelios and Garen
based on 2,935 Aphelios with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Garen Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Garen
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Garen
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Aphelios Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Garen, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Garen supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Garen on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Garen
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Garen?
There is no perfect companion for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Garen is a very typical teammate for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 48.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Aphelios and Garen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when arranging Garen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Aphelios and Garen together, you may not be providing your team very much AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to synergize with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Aphelios and Garen synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Aphelios combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Garen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Aphelios players 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 rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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