Aphelios with Zilean
How to Synergize Aphelios and Zilean
based on 1,072 Aphelios with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Zilean
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Understand How Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Aphelios Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zilean helps Aphelios perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Zilean, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Zilean provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Zilean 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 Zilean.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Zilean on the same team, he on average takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Aphelios during team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Zilean
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top synergy for Aphelios that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Zilean is a below average companion for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, he lowers their win rate by -2.6% to 46.0%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Aphelios and Zilean that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zilean has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Zilean teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Aphelios players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by bringing Aphelios and Zilean together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of tankyness. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to pair well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Aphelios and Zilean synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Zilean than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 46.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against 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 rune combinations that we analyzed for Aphelios and Zilean pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.0% winrate overall.
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