Xerath with Aphelios
How to Synergize Xerath and Aphelios
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Xerath Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Aphelios
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aphelios helps Xerath perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xerath is an ally to Aphelios, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Aphelios does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played together 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 with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Xerath plays with Aphelios on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Xerath during team fights.
Synergies between Xerath and Aphelios
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best ally for Xerath that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Aphelios is a not very good ally for Xerath. By playing on the same side as Xerath, he lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Xerath and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Xerath. That means you should be careful when finding Aphelios comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Xerath and Aphelios together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Xerath to synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Xerath and Aphelios synergy build consist of Void Staff, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, Xerath boasted an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Xerath players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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