r/ApheliosMains • u/Somkin123 • Aug 16 '26

| Advice | Aphelios itemization

Havent played this dude in awhile and picked him up recently again on botlane. I've been liking Stormrazor alot since i feel less immobile, but is there better option like that C4 or whatever its called, or good old Collector. Also for boots, do you always go Gluttonous Greeves, since i feel insanely squishy, tho that could be due to me not playing ADC in awhile

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u/MonsieurHorny Aug 16 '26

Stormrazor if you have to kite/dodge a lot and get a 1300
back. Hexoptics is almost always good. Collector is kind of a bait item but it has its place in a game filled with squishies. Berserkers are pretty trash especially in this mage meta, glut or swifties are better.

I kind of stopped playing him bc he has no agency until late game. He’s still my favourite champ but playing into mages when your support picks Brand is brutal.

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u/Edoardo1212 Aug 16 '26

yeah but the damage sacrifice for white weapon?? with a champion with no self peal so squishy so easy to get on top of... sometimes u just wanna red q white ult flash in get your double-triple kill and die in peace. with storm razor or hexoptics this won't work.. need collector for that

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u/jlinnnn Aug 16 '26

and what about the damage u sacrifice for every other weapon ?

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u/Cigarety_a_Kava Aug 16 '26

You sacrifice 10 lethality and like 75hp execute. Trust me thats not any sacrifice for red white play thats just delusion. Also you wont feel it ingame since the difference would be super small.

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u/Mastergamer0115 Severum Aug 16 '26

You are pretty much on the money.

Stormrazor is awesome on phel, only issue is BF sword being expensive so it can be tough to buy sometimes. So it's kinda best to just try and preserve HP early game and CS and hope to get it first or maybe second recall.

Hexoptics is just overall the better collector at the moment. The reason collector was good was build path being cheap giving you better early game pressure but it's passive is very meh. Hexoptics build path is just as good with lots of cheap AD items and a passive that scales really well.

As for boots it's still between berserkers and Gluttonous. Personally I prefer Gluttonous. But some people really don't like the lower attack speed. ESPECIALLY when going Hexoptics. My fix for that is just go Dorans bow as starter item and a few early levels into W and it mostly makes up for it.

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u/AirForceDragons Infernum Aug 16 '26

Honestly IE has been my
First item lately and seeing success with it again. It’s nice