Aphelios with Kayn
How to Synergize Aphelios and Kayn
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Aphelios Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Kayn
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Aphelios Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kayn 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 Kayn, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Kayn does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Kayn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kayn.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Kayn on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kayn does a poor job of covering Aphelios during team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Kayn
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Aphelios that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Kayn is a below average teammate for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 47.5%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Aphelios and Kayn that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kayn has a lower difficulty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kayn allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Aphelios players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Aphelios and Kayn together, you will not be granting your side a lot of AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kayn ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Aphelios Kayn Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to pair well with Kayn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Aphelios and Kayn synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Runaan's Hurricane, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Kayn than with most other common builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use 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 rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kayn with Aphelios are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.