Irelia with Aphelios
How to Synergize Irelia and Aphelios
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Irelia Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Aphelios
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia 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, Irelia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Aphelios helps Irelia perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia plays on the same team as Aphelios, she observes a small increase in her total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Aphelios provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Aphelios on the same side, 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 Irelia plays with Aphelios on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Irelia during team fights.
Synergies between Irelia and Aphelios
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no top champion pairing for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, Aphelios is a not very good teammate for Irelia. By locking into the same team as Irelia, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Irelia and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Irelia. That means you need to be very careful when finding Aphelios allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Irelia and Aphelios together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much magic damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Irelia in order to pair well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Irelia and Aphelios synergy build include Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average win rate of 48.7% when playing alongside Aphelios with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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