Thresh with Aphelios
How to Synergize Thresh and Aphelios
based on 5,145 Thresh with Aphelios pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Aphelios
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aphelios helps Thresh perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh is paired with Aphelios, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Aphelios does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aphelios.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Aphelios on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Thresh during team fights.
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no perfect companion for Thresh that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Aphelios is a very typical companion for Thresh. By playing on the same team as Thresh, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 48.7%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Thresh and Aphelios that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Thresh. That means you should be cautious when arranging Aphelios comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by grouping Thresh and Aphelios together, you will not be granting your other teammates much magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Thresh to pair well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Thresh and Aphelios synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Aphelios than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 48.7% when playing alongside Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Thresh and Aphelios pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Aphelios with Thresh are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.