Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Rell Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rell sees a very large drop in her 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 Rell perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rell tries to synergize with Aphelios, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This could signal that Aphelios doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rell is played with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Additionally, when Rell plays with Aphelios on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Rell in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Rell that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Aphelios is a below average companion for Rell. By locking into the same team as Rell, he decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 46.9%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Rell and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Rell. That means Rell players need to be cautious when lining up Aphelios allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Rell and Aphelios together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Rell in order to synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Rell and Aphelios synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rell boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
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