Aphelios·Bot Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Aphelios Bot build, you should take Flash and Ghost 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 Infinity Edge as your first item, followed by Boots and Phantom Dancer. For your last 3 items, you should build Yun Tal Wildarrows, Lord Dominik's Regards and finish with Bloodthirster. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 52.0% winrate over 2 348 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Fleet Footwork as your keystone, Absorb Life, Legend: Bloodline and Cut Down in the primary tree, and Absolute Focus with Gathering Storm in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Infinity Edge as your first item, then Boots as a second item and Phantom Dancer as a third item. You want to finish the build with Yun Tal Wildarrows, Bloodthirster and Guardian Angel. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 52.3% win rate across 1 278 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Aphelios Bot build in the current patch, try Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Absorb Life, Legend: Bloodline and Cut Down as your primary rune tree, and Absolute Focus with Gathering Storm as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete The Collector as your first item, then finish Boots as your second item, and Infinity Edge as third item. The last 3 options are Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster and Runaan's Hurricane. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 54.1% win rate over 172 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.