Viktor with Aphelios
How to Synergize Viktor and Aphelios
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Viktor Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Viktor vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Aphelios
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor 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, Viktor 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 decrease shows that Aphelios helps Viktor perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Viktor is an ally to Aphelios, he observes a little drop in his total damage output. This change may signal that Aphelios does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played 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 synergisticly with Aphelios.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Aphelios on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Viktor in team fights.
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best ally for Viktor that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a below average teammate for Viktor. By playing on the same team as Viktor, he lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Viktor and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Viktor. That means you need to be careful when arranging Aphelios teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Viktor players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Viktor and Aphelios together, you probably will not be granting your team very much crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Viktor to pair well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Viktor and Aphelios synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Viktor incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Aphelios than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Viktor had an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Aphelios with Viktor are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.