Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Kayn 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, Kayn sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Kayn perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is paired with Aphelios, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Aphelios does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Moreover, when Kayn 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 mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Kayn during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Kayn that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Aphelios is a terrible companion for Kayn. By locking into the same side as Kayn, he decreases their win rate by -4.7% to 45.7%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Kayn and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Kayn. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Aphelios comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Kayn players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Kayn and Aphelios together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Kayn in order to pair well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Kayn and Aphelios synergy build consist of Goredrinker, Black Cleaver, and Death's Dance. When Kayn used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Aphelios than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kayn had an average winrate of 45.7% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.7% winrate overall.
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