Aphelios with Lucian
How to Synergize Aphelios and Lucian
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Aphelios Lucian Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Lucian
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Aphelios Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lucian helps Aphelios perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is an ally to Lucian, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Lucian doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lucian.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Lucian on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Lucian does a decent job of covering Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Lucian
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no one best companion for Aphelios that will always be his best ally. Yet, Lucian is a very bad companion for Aphelios. By locking into the same team as Aphelios, he lowers their win rate by -3.5% to 45.1%. This shows that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Aphelios and Lucian that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Lucian has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when lining up Lucian comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Aphelios players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Aphelios and Lucian together, you may not be granting your side enough magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Lucian ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios in order to pair well with Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Aphelios and Lucian synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Lucian than with most other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 45.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lucian with these items in his kit.
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. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Aphelios and Lucian pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.1% win rate overall.
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