Aphelios with Wukong
How to Synergize Aphelios and Wukong
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Aphelios Wukong Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Wukong
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Aphelios Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Wukong helps Aphelios perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Wukong, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Wukong does not 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 Wukong on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Wukong.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Wukong on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Wukong does a decent job of covering Aphelios during teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Wukong
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no one best companion for Aphelios that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Wukong is a decent teammate for Aphelios. By locking into the same team as Aphelios, he improves their win rate by 2.7% to 51.3%. This shows that there is a good bond between Aphelios and Wukong that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Wukong has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when enlisting Wukong comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Aphelios players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Aphelios and Wukong together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Wukong ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to synergize with Wukong during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Aphelios and Wukong synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Wukong than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Wukong with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Aphelios players should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Wukong with Aphelios are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.