Aphelios Build Guide by McNugglz

Hi! I'm McNugglz, a silver Aphelios player here to share the knowledge I've gathered so far on Aphelios. I may be low elo but I feel the info I've got here can really be of use to people more my level. I started playing league January of 2020 and I've been addicted ever since. Lets get into the guide

In the lane phase you really are not the strongest as you only start with two different auto attacks. Play level 1 safe and just farm for 2 and poke with sniper when the opportunity presents itself. Don't poke if they can counter back with something stronger or their wave is way bigger than yours as the minions will aggro on to you causing you to take more damage than you put out. If you started cull then mainly look to cs as you can sometimes back on enough gold for noon quiver and boots.

When you're in lane you have access to Calibrum, The Sniper Rifle and Severum, The Scythe Pistol. In lane you want to mainly cs with Severum so you can leave your poke and harass to Calibrum. Once you reach 10 or less ammo on Severum you can either empty the gun like normal or look to pull off a combo. The combo goes as follow Severum Q, Gravitum replaces Severum, Activate mark, Gravitum Q to root them in place, Then Calibrum Q for the extra damage and mark proc. There are plenty of other combos that you can do but I'll make a video on that in the future.

Aphelios in the mid game can vary depending on how you do in lane, duh. You will most likely have your mythic item and boots. You will want to look to do one of many things. You will either want to snowball your lane further by getting more kills or poking them out of lane to gather a cs gap, Focus objectives, or join in on skirmishes as your R is a game changer in fights. A tip that I do have for using your R is that you shouldn't stress about holding it as its cd isn't that bad. The only time you would really want to hold your R is if you have Severum R available to heal back from a fight gone sideways.

Your late game is where you become frickin awesome! You have a lot of DPS with your runaans hurricane Infernum. In team fights you will obviously want to stay in the back line and follow up when a key ability/abilities have been used by the enemy. Some include Leona R, Talon R, Nautilus R/Q, Orianna R, Sejuani R, any key ability that will mess up your chances of stabilizing yourself in fights to pump out your damage. Some of your best team fight combos are Infernum/Gravitum, Infernum/Crescendum, Severum/Infernum, Calibrum/Crescendum. Each game you will want to take into thought in which guns you will want to have the majority of times.

I hope you enjoyed going through this guide. If you learned something that's amazing and if you have any questions or feedback then feel free to put them down.