Aphelios·Mid Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Aphelios Mid build, you should take Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Press the Attack as your keystone, followed by Absorb Life, Legend: Bloodline and Cut Down in the primary tree, as well as Absolute Focus and Gathering Storm in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build The Collector as your first item, followed by Berserker's Greaves and Infinity Edge. For your last 3 items, you should build Lord Dominik's Regards, Immortal Shieldbow and finish with Rapid Firecannon. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 54.6% winrate over 174 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Aphelios Mid build would be to take Flash and Barrier as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Press the Attack as your keystone, Absorb Life, Legend: Bloodline and Cut Down in the primary tree, and Absolute Focus with Gathering Storm in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Youmuu's Ghostblade, which you should build first, followed by Berserker's Greaves as your second item and The Collector as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards and Immortal Shieldbow. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 52.3% win rate over 107 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Exhaust and Flash as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Press the Attack as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, and Absolute Focus with Gathering Storm in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Yun Tal Wildarrows as your first item, then Berserker's Greaves as a second item and Bloodthirster as a third item. You want to finish the build with Mortal Reminder, Runaan's Hurricane and Infinity Edge. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 49.3% win rate across 75 matches played.

Situational Aphelios Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Aphelios build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.