Aphelios with Jarvan IV
How to Synergize Aphelios and Jarvan IV
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Aphelios Jarvan IV Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Jarvan IV
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Jarvan IV Will Play
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
Aphelios Jarvan IV Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jarvan IV as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Jarvan IV synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jarvan IV, 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 Jarvan IV. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Jarvan IV helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Jarvan IV, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Jarvan IV helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Jarvan IV 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 Jarvan IV.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Jarvan IV on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Jarvan IV does a poor job of covering Aphelios during teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Jarvan IV
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Jarvan IV?
There is no one best champion pairing for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Jarvan IV is a very typical teammate for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 48.3%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Aphelios and Jarvan IV that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Jarvan IV has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when finding Jarvan IV comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Aphelios players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Aphelios and Jarvan IV together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Jarvan IV ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to synergize with Jarvan IV during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Jarvan IV synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Jarvan IV than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.3% when playing alongside Jarvan IV with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip 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 chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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