Gwen with Aphelios
How to Synergize Gwen and Aphelios
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Gwen Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Aphelios
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aphelios helps Gwen perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen tries to synergize with Aphelios, she gets a little decrease in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Aphelios does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played alongside Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Moreover, when Gwen plays with Aphelios on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Gwen during team fights.
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Gwen that will always be her best ally. Yet, Aphelios is a relatively poor companion for Gwen. By locking into the same team as Gwen, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 46.9%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Gwen and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Gwen. That means Gwen players should be very careful when arranging Aphelios allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Gwen and Aphelios together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gwen to work well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Gwen and Aphelios synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Riftmaker. When Gwen used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with most other common builds. In fact, Gwen boasted an average winrate of 46.9% helping carry Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
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