Aphelios with Talon
How to Synergize Aphelios and Talon
based on 1,899 Aphelios with Talon pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Talon Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Talon
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Talon
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Aphelios Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Talon helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is an ally to Talon, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Talon doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Talon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Talon. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Talon.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Talon on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Talon does a poor job of protecting Aphelios in teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Talon
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Talon?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Talon is a relatively poor companion for Aphelios. By being on the same side as Aphelios, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 46.2%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Aphelios and Talon that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Talon has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Talon comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Aphelios and Talon together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Talon ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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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 work well with Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Aphelios and Talon synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Talon than with most other common builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 46.2% helping carry Talon with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing 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. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Aphelios and Talon pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.2% winrate overall.
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