I'm writing this guide because I think Aphelios has probably the most depth of any champion in the game, which is what made me fall in love with the champion as I slowly started to discover it. There are some good Aphelios guides out there, many of which I have to credit as without them I'd never have reached the level and knowledge of Aphelios that I have today, but none of them really go all out to cover everything there is to Aphelios, the most complex and elaborate champion in League of Legends. Possibly because it seemed like an impossible effort. Personally, I saw that as an exciting challenge: To create the ultimate resource that would truly go the extra mile in explaining everything there is to Aphelios from start to finish, from the basics to the advanced, from the simple to the complex, from the widely applicable to the most niche. Everything that goes into mastering Aphelios available in one single page. I knew it was going to be a massive project but even then I was not prepared for just how huge an undertaking this was. Had I known how long it was really going to take, perhaps I never would have started. But I did, and over the course of at least a hundred hours I worked tirelessly until my vision for what an in-depth Aphelios guide should look like was finally complete. Now I can say, with full confidence, that this is the only Aphelios guide that you could ever possibly need. I hope that you will come out of this guide as inspired to take on all the challenges of this champion as I was when I first started diving into him. Incidentally, I also happen to make educational ADC content on YouTube dedicated to helping low Elo players improve at bot lane. If you're interested I advise checking out my Aphelios to Diamond YouTube series to see what my channel is all about. Although I main Aphelios, I try to do content on as many ADCs as possible so there's a little bit of something for everyone. Play Video Aphelios is the most unique champion in the game. Instead of having 3 basic abilities and an ultimate, Aphelios has 5 different weapons each with different auto-attack effects and an entirely unique Q ability per weapon, as well as an ultimate with varying effects depending on what weapon he's wielding. Instead of levelling his abilities he levels up stats instead, gaining huge amounts of AD, attack speed and lethality, making him a hyperscaling monster as he maxes them all out. On the surface Aphelios looks very complex, having 5 different weapons, 4 of which have unique interactions depending on his off-hand weapon, leading to 4 different potential effects on cast for each of these weapons, resulting in Aphelios having 16 different potential effects for each of those 4 abilities on top of the one set-in-stone weapon ability, totalling 17 different potential effects Aphelios can get out of casting each of his basic abilities. One thing people say about Aphelios is that despite the above, he's not as complicated as he seems, or that he's actually quite easy once you get the hang of him. They are right about the abilities being easy to grasp once you get the hang of him, but they are still wrong. Everything mentioned in the paragraph above is easy to grasp once you get a few Aphelios games in and learn the key rule to consistently getting good weapon combinations. But that's the easy part, and truly is just the surface. You'd be forgiven for learning those basics and thinking you've cracked it, but in reality one could play 1,000 games of Aphelios and still fail to truly capture the full depth of the champion. Once you've learned the gun cycles, the full extent of his abilities and all their applications, you've learned only the bare minimum there is to know. This is where people make the mistake of thinking they now understand Aphelios and that he's not as hard as he initially seemed. But this isn't even 20% of his full complexity. Mechanically, Aphelios isn't actually all that hard, for the most part. But the depth of this champion is far more ridiculous than people realize. He is often wrongly categorized as an auto-attack based ADC. In reality you should be thinking of him more as a combo-based spellcaster, whose basic attacks while his abilities are on cooldown are just way more effective than your average spellcaster, and for whom the combos themselves incorporate heavy basic attacking. While it's true that Aphelios uses a lot of basic attacks in his playstyle, it's the ability usage that determines 80% of how effective a player will be on Aphelios. And there's a lot about optimal ability usage and basic attack weaving on Aphelios that I promise you have not even begun to think about.

As Aphelios's strengths, weaknesses and playstyle vary greatly from weapon to weapon (let alone combo to combo), it's important to cover what effects each weapon has, and what unique basic ability each weapon has. For structuring purposes, we'll cover Aphelios' ultimate and how it interacts with each weapon, as well as how each basic ability interacts with every off-hand effect later on.


Aphelios' ultimate is Moonlight Vigil, which throws a lunar spotlight in the target direction and explodes upon connecting with an enemy champion, dealing immediate damage in an AoE and marking every enemy hit by the explosion to be struck with an auto-attack from the weapon Aphelios was holding at the time of casting Moonlight Vigil. Each weapon has a different unique effect for Moonlight Vigil, so we'll cover them all by one and explain all their strengths.


Aphelios doesn't need to max his abilities, but they scale anyway as he gains levels. However, the way they scale is unintuitive in many ways, and it's hard to keep track of how much damage each ability is doing in-game because you can only check two abilities at a time depending on what weapons you have. This chapter will be dedicated to showing you the exact numbers behind every ability so you get an idea of just how much damage Aphelios' kit contains, and the universal way they all scale.

To start with, all Aphelios abilities finish scaling at level 13. Nothing in-game informs you about this. When you're told that Aphelios' abilities scale with levels, you might assume that they finish levelling when Aphelios finishes levelling, but this is not the case. They used to finish levelling at level 9, which is when any other champion would finish maxing their first ability, but in patch 10.8 it was moved to level 13 instead, which is when every other champion finishes maxing their second ability. The damage still scales up to the same amount as it did before (aside from occasional balance changes since), so the change was purely to nerf Aphelios' early game and further cement his intended role as a hyperscaler.

You would also be forgiven for assuming that they scale up on every level, the same way other champions get to level up an ability every level. They actually scale up every 2 levels, at levels 1 / 3 / 5 / 7 / 9 / 11 / 13. While for most champions every level up besides 6 tends to be equally important, odd number level ups up until level 13 are disproportionately high importance for Aphelios while even number level ups are disproportionately low, with the exception of level 6 when he gains his ultimate just like any other champion would.

This is not a huge factor that I would recommend heavily playing around, simply because each individual level up is such a small increase in damage anyway, but it's useful to at least be aware of the fact that you are gaining less from levelling up to level 4 than someone like Lucian is. Each level up being only a small increase damage is particularly true since the ability scaling being pushed back to level 13 since it means each level up gives you less now than it used to. For example, Moonshot used to gain 25 damage every 2 levels (already worse than most ability scalings), but now it actually only gains 16.67 damage every 2 levels, as it still hits the same peak at level 13 as it used to hit at level 9.

If you're perceptive, you'll also have noticed that Aphelios' abilities don't all have the same cooldowns, and these cooldowns also go down with levels. Their relation with levels is exactly the same as the ability damages, their cooldown lowering every 2 levels until level 13 when they stop gaining anything from level ups. We'll also cover their exact cooldowns later on.

For now, let's break down the damage of each ability.


For your second slot, you have a variety of choices:


Your primary tree on Aphelios should always be precision, and your keystone choices are between Fleet Footwork, Press The Attack and Conqueror.


For your minor precision tree runes, your choices are as follows:


TL;DR: The current best skilling order for Aphelios is to max AD > Lethality > Attack Speed. If you want to maximize champions damage over last-hitting/waveclear, you can start maxing lethality as soon as your AD is high enough to last-hit caster minions under turret in one hit.

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The gold value of Aphelios's maxed out stats is 945 gold for AD, 1,350 gold for attack speed, and 957 gold for lethality. Although this would imply that the best skilling order is W > E > Q, there are a couple of other factors to consider besides gold value. One is that AD is typically the best early-game stat to have as it gives higher damage per auto therefore better trading and last-hitting, which makes it better to max before attack speed. Lethality works best the more damage you already have, and as early-game you don't have much of it, fully maxing it right from the get go out of the question.

However, for your second stat to max, although the gold value on W is much higher than the gold value on E, another thing to consider is synergy with Aphelios's kit. As previously mentioned, Aphelios is highly ability dependent with many potential single-target oneshot combos and potentially even AoE oneshot combos. This obviously gives him a lot of synergy with stats that increase his ability damage, such as AD and lethality, while he has very few synergies with attack speed besides the regular crit ADC's synergy with attack speed.

For a beginner Aphelios who doesn't yet know how to fully utilize Aphelios's kit, they may not be able to identify much of a visible difference between maxing the attack speed or lethality second as much of their effectiveness will come from their auto-attacks anyway, but the more one masters the champion, the more they will get out of maxing lethality over attack speed, and come to appreciate lethality for its playmaking potential.

That being said, a third and fourth factor to consider: Attack speed max straight up gives the highest DPS of all stats by far at all stages, and lethality works best against low armor targets and worst against high armor targets. If your sole objective is to melt down tanky enemy targets, then W max will work best at doing so, at the cost of decreasing your effectiveness against all squishy targets who could actually be blown up with your abilities.

What is the exact tangible point where you should max W against tanks? It's hard to say. Personally I usually don't feel the need to alter my skill max or buildpath just because of a tank on the enemy team, but as a tank starts to get really fed, and depending on which tank as well (Malphite, Sion and Cho'gath are the worst), I may alter my skilling order and even radically alter my buildpath to adjust for them. If you're maxing W every other game, then you're probably overreacting to the mere presence of a tank. But the more tanks there are, and the further ahead they are, the more you should consider W max second as an option over E max.

But remember, although you're a backline ADC, you have a lot of combos to make plays with and oneshot squishies, so you're not just limited to interacting with the enemy tanks in a game just because they have a beefy frontline. Don't fall into the trap of simply maxing W every time the enemy team has tanks. So long as you think your DPS will be sufficient enough to deal with them, you don't have to maximize it and can instead focus on having more impact with your abilities. This is especially true in Season 14 where the strength of lethality has become so much better.

In this chapter, we'll explore all of the possible weapon pairings and talk about their strengths and weaknesses, as well as what I think of the pairing overall. When discussing whether a weapon pairing is good or bad, we're looking at the way their abilities synergize with each other, but also at how good the fundamental strengths of each weapon support being paired with the fundamental strengths with another.

What I mean by that is for example, a weapon pairing consisting of one utility-focused weapon and one damage-focused weapon is a nice, well-rounded pairing because it brings two different strengths to the table. Pairing two pure damage-focused weapons together however makes little sense even if their off-hand synergies are good because they both have similar strengths meaning you will use whichever one you consider best and have no reason to consider using the other, so the other one just sits there purely just providing a decent off-hand effect to the main weapon. Yes, different damage-focused weapons have different situations they shine in so occasionally you would want to switch between them accordingly, but the advantage gained is minor compared to the damage increase of switching from a utility weapon to a damage weapon as needed. If you want damage then you will have it, but you will have very little to support you besides more damage.

On the flip side, pairing two utility-focused weapons is ill-advised, even if their two utility effects are entirely different, because it leaves you with no damage option for maximising your damage output when called for. Although combining different utility effects can be nice and their synergy can be quite good, not having enough damage to win a fight is definitely one of the most undesirable predicaments to have from your weapons that you'll want to avoid as much as possible.

The best weapon combinations are not just those with good off-hand synergies, but also combining as many strengths as possible from your weapon effects to leave you with as few weaknesses as possible, covering all bases.


Learning to maintain a proper weapon cycle so you can constantly maintain ideal weapon pairings is the first thing you must learn on your road towards mastering Aphelios. Aphelios' weapon cycle always starts with the same order (Calibrum - Severum - Gravitum - Infernum - Crescendum), and this order can be manipulated by depleting weapons in any order other than what you receive the weapons in.

If we wanted to keep the original cycle completely intact, we would achieve that by depleting Calibrum first as it's the first weapon we receive, and then always first depleting the oldest weapon in our disposal. If we did the opposite, only depleting the newest weapon we receive, we would end up never using Severum as it's never the newest weapon in our disposal, meaning we could never really use Severum's autos or abilities for fear of depleting it, and all our weapon pairings would be Severum as off-hand. Obviously, neither of these things are ideal.

Thus, depleting our oldest weapon first is how we maintain our current cycle, and depleting the newest weapon is something we do only when we want to alter the order of our current cycle to develop a better one.

Now that you understand how weapon cycles work, I'll talk you through the 2 most common weapon cycles for Aphelios, starting with the 'Standard' rotation that every Aphelios player knows about.


The first step to achieving this weapon cycle is by depleting Severum first right at the start when we receive our initial pairing of Calibrum-Severum. This very first step gives you the cycle of Severum - Calibrum - Gravitum - Infernum - Crescendum, and what this does is that it gives you Crescendum-Severum instead of Crescendum-Calibrum, and Calibrum-Gravitum instead of Severum-Gravitum. Arguably only one of these alterations is an upgrade, but it's important as getting to this new cycle is the first step towards ending up with the end-goal cycle.

We carry through this cycle as normal by depleting the oldest weapon first as normal, until we reach Crescendum-Severum. At this point we once again deplete Severum first. This gives us a new cycle of Calibrum - Gravitum - Infernum - Severum - Crescendum, and what this one achieves is getting rid of the Severum-Calibrum pairing entirely (good riddance!), giving us both Severum-Crescendum and Crescendum-Calibrum, arguably the two best Crescendum pairings, and also Infernum-Severum.

If this seems too convoluted for you, there's an easy way to simplify it: If we understand that the rule for maintaining a cycle is to always first deplete your oldest weapon, then achieving this standard cycle means only adhering to this except when you have Severum; no matter when you receive Severum, it is always to be depleted first until you achieve the cycle. During your first 2 cycles when you're setting up the standard cycle you will deplete red first even though it's the newest weapon in your inventory (or 2nd weapon, in the case of the default Calibrum-Severum start), and once that cycle is achieved, you just simply maintain it by following the rule of depleting your oldest weapon first.

The main focus of this cycle is surrounding Crescendum with two different weapons that both have great synergy with it, Crescendum and Calibrum. The order of the surrounding is also perfectly optimal as well, as Severum-Crescendum-Calibrum is miles better than Calibrum-Crescendum-Severum, for multiple reasons.

Casting Onslaught on less than 10 ammo swaps you from Severum-Crescendum to Calibrum-Crescendum, which is a great swap combo as it gives you 3-5 extra Chakrams to benefit from while using your new Crescendum-Calibrum pairing. This doesn't just benefit your crescnedum basic attacks, but also your Moonshots and Calibrum-Moonlight Vigil will both deal additional damage with your new Chakrams. The opposite swap “combo” of using Moonshot to swap from Calibrum-Crescendum to Severum-Crescendum is highly underwhelming in comparison as it can only ever give you one extra Chakram, and the only way you can use this Chakram is by attacking with Crescendum, as Onslaught and Severum-Moonlight Vigil both have no benefit from having additional Chakrams.

Severum-Crescendum plays through Onslaught, but Crescendum-Calibrum plays through Sentry. Because casting abilities consumes so much ammo, ideally you'd have your cycle set up in a way where the ability you're going to be playing through belongs to the weapon you're trying to deplete first. Severum-Crescendum-Calibrum conforms to this, but Calibrum-Crescendum-Severum doesn't, which would just make ammo management a lot more awkward and clumsy on that cycle.

If you were to make extensive use of Sentry during Calibrum-Crescendum (which is the whole point of the pairing), you'd hardly have any Crescendum ammo left to make use of Crescendum-Severum anymore, whereas on the contrary Severum-Crescendum doesn't use Sentry as much so would generally leave you more Crescendum ammo to use when swapping onto Crescendum-Calibrum.

Aside from achieving great weapon pairings with Crescendum, this cycle also achieves getting rid of Calibrum-Severum, which I consider tied with Gravitum-Crescendum for worst possible pairing, and gives you the strong pairings of Calibrum-Gravitum and Infernum-Severum.

This was the first cycle to become mainstream on Aphelios and for good reason, it's formed on a very strong basis. A basis so strong, that the only other cycle we'll cover for now is a cycle that is only a slight variation of this standard cycle.


This cycle is achieved exactly the same way as the standard cycle with only one minor alteration; we deplete Infernum before Gravitum at every possible point. This changes the weapon pairings of Calibrum-Gravitum and Infernum-Severum for Calibrum-Infernum and Gravitum-Severum. In my opinion the former is a huge upgrade particularly in the early-game, but the latter is a definite downgrade, albeit with the upside of enabling an amazing swap combo. We covered each of these pairings in the previous chapter 'Weapon Pairings' so you should understand why I think this way.

This cycle is less popular than the standard mostly I would say because people really underrate the synergy between Duskwave and Calibrum. The reason it's underestimated is partially because they believe Calibrum to be the only off-hand that doesn't benefit from Duskwave's AoE making it the worst synergy, which would be wrong even if that were correct. But it's also not correct.

We touched on this before, but a little known fact is that Calibrum marks deal extra damage to the target based on every mark consumed (15 base + 20% bonus AD per mark). Which means that the more targets you mark with Calibrum through Duskwave, the more damage your target of choice will actually take.

But that's not what makes the synergy great, and it would still be great even without it. In reality Calibrum just gives Duskwave the highest possible damage through an extra auto-attack that can even be used to attack-reset similar to Moonshot for insane close range burst. In essence it's the combination that gives you the most damage possible out of Infernum.

In my opinion this falls off a tiny bit later into the game as Infernum starts to be such a threatening force purely by itself that it starts to become more valuable to pair it with Severum for some safety, but the oneshot potential you get just from Calibrum-Duskwave later on is absolutely insane as well. More people would realise how powerful a combination it is if they just forced themselves to test it for a few games.

The downside of this cycle is I would say it's at least a little less beginner-friendly compared to the standard cycle. With the standard cycle, every weapon pairing plays through the ability of the weapon you're wanting to deplete (with the exception of Gravitum-Infernum that plays through both), meaning the ammo management is very simple which makes it hard to mess up the cycle. However, with Calibrum-Infernum you mainly play through Infernum while actually wanting to deplete Calibrum. It takes some restraint and planning ahead to make sure you're always depleting Calibrum before Infernum in this circumstance. By comparison, the standard cycle is a lot harder to mess up.

Regardless, I think learning both cycles is something damn near mandatory for a dedicated Aphelios player. After forcing myself to get familiarized with the Calibrum-Infernum cycle for the purposes of talking about it in this guide, I feel I am much more capable on Aphelios as a whole, not just on this particular cycle. Since the difference between both cycles is whether you deplete Gravitum or Infernum first, and Infernum is the easiest one to deplete first because of its lower basic ability cooldown, the fact it's a lot better for clearing waves/camps, and the fact it's generally a lot better in fights, it's very common to find yourself at least temporarily on this cycle by accident anyway, far more commonly than any other 'mistake' in your cycle.

Rather than dreading this mistake, even if they don't favour this cycle an Aphelios master should be so comfortable on it that they will happily accept using it if circumstances favour depleting Infernum before Gravitum, and not see it as a 'damnit, I need to get back on the standard cycle ASAP' moment. It should be seen as acceptable to switch back and forth between cycles as needed. Having a favourite cycle is fine, and even encouraged to start off with as a beginner, but the more you get into Aphelios the less excuse there is to not be comfortable on both, so as to be all the more flexible.


Ammo management refers to the practice of being intentional about how fast or how slow we burn through ammo on weapons, with the goal of optimizing uptime of weapons or pairings that we think are particularly good for us in any given game. A lot of people say this is the hardest yet most important skill on Aphelios. While I think it's a little overstated just how important it is on Aphelios compared to other skills (and highly overstated how difficult it is), it's still a skill that can greatly improve performance and takes only a little understanding, practice, and mindful thinking in order to execute, there's no reason to delay starting to think about how to manage your ammo optimally as a fledgling Aphelios player.

Doing away with theory and looking at what ammo management is in practice, the first time you'd run into a situation where ammo management is important is level 1 with your first Calibrum. Some matchups Calibrum's attack range can be absolutely integral to abusing your opposing laner with basic attack poke. You may notice yourself obtaining a great HP advantage in lane thanks to your Calibrum attack range. In these situations, the last thing you want to do is to unnecessarily burn Calibrum ammo.

To avoid doing so, the obvious thing is to not attack minions with Calibrum, and instead last-hit and push with Severum/Gravitum. You'd probably already gathered that yourself. However, less obviously, you'd also want to strongly consider not using Moonshot, at least in situations that aren't a guaranteed hit. While fishing for poke with Moonshot is generally a smart idea, and sort of the point of the ability/weapon, it burns 10 ammo per cast and if your success in lane is strongly tied to holding Calibrum, you'd want to extend its duration by not burning 10 ammo every time you have a chance to try and poke with Moonshot. I won't argue that you shouldn't go for what you consider to be free hits with Moonshot, but definitely don't go for random pot shots if extending Calibrum's lifespan is ideal for your success in lane.

Some matchups on the other hand you may have to be playing too safe to actually find opportunities to poke with Calibrum basic attacks. If you're not able to obtain much benefit from Calibrum's extra attack range, then rather than extending its duration, to the contrary you'd rather swap it out for Infernum as soon as possible. On top of the fact that you're not getting any use out of Calibrum, perhaps Infernum's short range trading and burst plays better into your support's play pattern. Regardless, now you can start using Moonshot willy-nilly. Not only can, but should. If you're trying to push the lane, you can even consider using Moonshot to shove faster, depending on how desperate you are to get rid of Calibrum. The faster you burn through Calibrum the faster you obtain Infernum, which is going to help you a lot more in any fights that break out, make it easier for you to control the wave, and make you a lot stronger in short range trades.

Using ammo management, you can also control your weapon cycles to cater more towards the pairings you think are good, and less towards the pairings you think are weak. For example, in the Standard cycle Calibrum-Gravitum is the only pairing that doesn't involve either Infernum or Crescendum, making it the worst pairing for DPS and general damage. But maybe you're playing a game where you actually need a lot of damage? Well, you can use ammo management to basically skip through Calibrum-Gravitum entirely.

When you're on Crescendum-Calibrum, you can make liberal use of Moonshot to keep Calibrum ammo as close to Crescendum's ammo as possible. Then when you eventually swap out for Crescendum for Gravitum, you're just one Moonshot away from swapping straight into Infernum, meaning potentially you can only be forced to use Calibrum-Gravitum for all of 1 second. It just requires very intentional usage of Moonshot and potentially Calibrum attacks on minions while on Crescendum-Calibrum to control your cycle in a way where you get the least uptime possible on Calibrum-Gravitum, and therefore the most uptime possible on other pairings that have either Infernum or Crescendum.

However, rather than wanting to get rid of Calibrum in literally 1 second, you'd usually probably rather hold it close to 10 ammo or below for more flexibility. Decide you want to try and oneshot someone with Calibrum-Moonlight Vigil? You'll have that option. Decide you want to try and create a pick with Moonshot into a Binding Eclipse? You'll have that option. See that a fight is breaking out and you actually don't want Calibrum and want to swap into Infernum immediately? You have the option of casting Moonshot to immediately force the swap.

There is no benefit to immediately burning Calibrum every time, being on 10 ammo or less is already the same as having your next weapon available anyway, so in such a situation you may as well hold onto Calibrum until you either find something you can do with your last remaining ammo, or until you actually need to use Infernum. This same logic also applies onto any other part of your cycle where you may want to apply ammo management in such a way, it doesn't necessarily have to be just Calibrum-Gravitum.

Another example of a common application of ammo management is, instead of minimizing uptime of a particular pairing, you might want to maximize uptime of a particular weapon: such as Infernum. Crescendum and Infernum are both weapons focused on raw damage, but they do so in entirely different ways. Crescendum offers more DPS and only works on one target at a time, while Infernum is far burstier and able to take on multiple enemies at once.

Based off of these descriptions, you can already intuit that Crescendum works better against tankier enemies who are going to take more hits to take down, while Infernum works better against squishier targets, both individually but especially in AoE. So sometimes Infernum is just more clearly adept at killing the enemies of a particular game than Crescendum is, meaning you'll benefit by using ammo management to extend Infernum uptime at the expense of Crescendum uptime.

You can do this by simply avoiding using Infernum as much as possible while you have it (except in fights), and definitely avoiding using Duskwave for waveclear, tempting though it may be. This means you're going to burn mostly Gravitum for clearing waves instead of Infernum, to preserve Infernum as much as possible. Then when we swap from Gravitum to Severum and have Infernum-Severum, we obviously have to burn Infernum before Severum to maintain the cycle, but can do so while depleting Severum at more or less the same rate as Infernum, just for the reason that any Severum ammo used is Infernum ammo preserved.

Then when we do finally burn through Infernum, we arrive at Severum-Crescendum, with only around ~10 ammo on Severum. Although we didn't directly use up any Crescendum ammo in favour of preserving Infernum ammo, by virtue of burning through so much Severum ammo while delaying receiving Crescendum, we reduce Crescendum uptime by reducing uptime of one of the pairings involving it: Severum-Crescendum. At this point even if we tried to preserve Crescendum uptime as much as possible, we'd be limited by having very little Severum ammo left to put off using up Crescendum ammo, and would have to rely mostly on Calibrum to protect our Crescendum ammo.

This leads me to another point. The fact that maximizing uptime of a weapon doesn't just mean preserving its ammo, but also not using ammo unnecessarily of any of the weapons it's paired with. The more we use Onslaught while on Severum-Crescendum, the faster we're forcing our cycle to move away from Crescendum even while not directly using any Crescendum ammo, because unnecessary Severum ammo usage minimizes uptime on one of the overall pairings that uses Crescendum. The more we use Binding Eclipse while on Gravitum-Infernum, the faster we're forcing our cycle to move away from Infernum even while not directly using any Infernum ammo as well.

So if you're looking to maximize uptime on any particular weapon, that goes hand in hand with not wasting ammo on any of the weapons it's paired with, it's not enough to just not waste the ammo of the weapon itself. The more ammo you waste of its pair, the sooner you're forcing yourself to have to use up ammo of the weapon you're trying to preserve. Be wary of that.

One last crucial piece of advice in regards to ammo management: Do not overforce it. Sometimes you'd like to preserve Infernum ammo but need to use Duskwave to crash a wave fast. The priority would be to crash the wave fast, using Duskwave if necessary. You try to preserve ammo in scenarios where clearing the wave fast isn't as big a deal, and even then you might still want to use at least a few Infernum autos to speed it up while using your other weapon to clean up the last-hits afterwards. You're looking to compromise ammo conservation with otherwise proper play as much as possible, not preserving ammo at all costs. Use your best judgement.


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