Gragas with Aphelios
How to Synergize Gragas and Aphelios
based on 1,593 Gragas with Aphelios pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Aphelios
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aphelios helps Gragas perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is paired with Aphelios, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Aphelios does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Aphelios on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Aphelios does a poor job of protecting Gragas during team fights.
Synergies between Gragas and Aphelios
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no top ally for Gragas that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Aphelios is a not very good teammate for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he drops their win rate by -1.3% to 46.6%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Gragas and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Gragas. That means Gragas players must be very careful when enlisting Aphelios teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Gragas players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gragas and Aphelios together, you may not be providing your side a lot of AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to synergize with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Gragas and Aphelios synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 46.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Gragas and Aphelios pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.6% win rate overall.
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