Aphelios with Viktor
How to Synergize Aphelios and Viktor
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Aphelios Viktor Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Viktor
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Viktor
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Viktor Will Play
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Aphelios Viktor Synergy Stats
How to Play with Viktor as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Viktor synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Viktor, 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 Viktor. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Viktor helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Viktor, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Viktor does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Viktor on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Viktor.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Viktor on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Viktor does a poor job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Viktor
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Viktor?
There is no perfect companion for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Viktor is a very typical ally for Aphelios. By being on the same side as Aphelios, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Aphelios and Viktor that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Viktor has a lower difficulty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be careful when arranging Viktor comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Aphelios players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Aphelios and Viktor together, you probably will not be granting your team enough utility. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Viktor ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios to work well with Viktor during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Aphelios and Viktor synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Viktor than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing alongside Viktor with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Viktor with Aphelios are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.