Aphelios with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Aphelios and Vel'Koz
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Aphelios Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Vel'Koz
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Aphelios Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vel'Koz helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is an ally to Vel'Koz, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Vel'Koz does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Vel'Koz 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 Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Vel'Koz
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top ally for Aphelios that will always be his best ally. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 48.4%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Aphelios and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a lower difficulty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when finding Vel'Koz teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Aphelios and Vel'Koz together, you may not be giving your side very much engage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios in order to work well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Aphelios and Vel'Koz synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 48.4% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Aphelios players should take the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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