Olaf with Aphelios
How to Synergize Olaf and Aphelios
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Olaf Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Aphelios
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf 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, Olaf sees a very large drop in his 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 Olaf perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Olaf is an ally to Aphelios, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This could signal that Aphelios does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played together with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Aphelios on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Olaf during teamfights.
Synergies between Olaf and Aphelios
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Olaf that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Aphelios is a relatively poor teammate for Olaf. By playing on the same team as Olaf, he decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 47.9%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Olaf and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means you must be careful when lining up Aphelios comrades to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Olaf and Aphelios together, you will not be giving your team very much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Olaf in order to work well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Olaf and Aphelios synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Death's Dance. When Olaf included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Olaf had an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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