Aphelios with Gragas
How to Synergize Aphelios and Gragas
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Aphelios Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Gragas
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Aphelios Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gragas helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Gragas, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Gragas helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gragas.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Gragas on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Gragas does a poor job of covering Aphelios in teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Gragas
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no ideal ally for Aphelios that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Gragas is a not very good companion for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 46.6%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Aphelios and Gragas that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gragas has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Gragas teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Aphelios and Gragas together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of AP. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gragas ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to synergize with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Gragas synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Gragas than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 46.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Aphelios players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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