Brand with Aphelios
How to Synergize Brand and Aphelios
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Brand Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Brand with Aphelios
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Brand Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Brand in LoL
The Brand Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Aphelios helps Brand perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand is an ally to Aphelios, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This change may signal that Aphelios does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside Aphelios 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 with Aphelios.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Aphelios on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Brand during teamfights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal ally for Brand that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Aphelios is a below average companion for Brand. By locking into the same side as Brand, he decreases their win rate by -2.9% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Brand and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Brand. That means Brand players need to be very careful when finding Aphelios comrades to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Brand and Aphelios together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of engage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to pair well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Brand and Aphelios synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Aphelios than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Brand and Aphelios pairings, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Aphelios with Brand are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.