Lucian with Aphelios
How to Synergize Lucian and Aphelios
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Lucian Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Aphelios
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian 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 fall shows that Aphelios helps Lucian perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian is paired with Aphelios, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Aphelios does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Lucian plays with Aphelios on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Aphelios does a poor job of protecting Lucian during teamfights.
Synergies between Lucian and Aphelios
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best champion pairing for Lucian that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a very bad ally for Lucian. By playing on the same team as Lucian, he lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 45.1%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Lucian and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Lucian. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Aphelios teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Lucian and Aphelios together, you may not be giving your side a lot of AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Lucian to work well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Lucian and Aphelios synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lucian boasted an average winrate of 45.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Lucian players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.1% winrate overall.
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