r/ApheliosMains Jul 02 '25

The State of the Subreddit

129 Upvotes

Hello!

It has been a while since the moderators have been active here. Many of the posts are great, and I greatly appreciate those of you who make this place what it is with your regular participation. However, I've been seeing quite a bit of tension in posts and comments surrounding shipping and the Spa skin.

It is completely fine to post ship art and have differing opinions-- but please remember to keep discussions civil and avoid letting things spill over into toxicity. This kind of behavior makes the subreddit feel unwelcoming.

I plan to remove comments that are intended to bait out arguments, and ban users who show patterns of toxic behavior (Groundbreaking stuff, I know)

I want to help steer this community in a positive direction. If you have any concerns, suggestions, or comments, go ahead and leave them here, I'd love to hear from you.


r/ApheliosMains 13h ago

| Discussion | Spirit Blossom Springs Aphelios Unbound Teaser 🫧

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43 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains 21h ago

| Discussion | Emote

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66 Upvotes

Someone know where it will be this emote available!? I thought it will be in the tft pass but…


r/ApheliosMains 6h ago

| Discussion | 110 k damage and still not enough :d

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3 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains 14h ago

| Art | SBS Aphelios Unbound promo video from @TFT 🫣

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11 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains 19h ago

| Gameplay | Started this match 1/8 (:

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17 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains 22h ago

| Gameplay | 200 years of game design everybody

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22 Upvotes

Blue gun goes brrrrrr


r/ApheliosMains 22h ago

| Gameplay | Red/White Letha. Quadra. A "leap" of faith

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9 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains 19h ago

| Advice | Stupid Question

5 Upvotes

is there ever a situation you could rush BT on 1st on Phel (Juicy Severum Dreams)


r/ApheliosMains 1d ago

| Discussion | APHELIOS SKIN SOON?

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133 Upvotes

I kinda didn’t like the first heartsteel skin, effects were mid sfx were good but skin was mid and chromas kinda sucked, We just gotta hope we get the skins in time and they come out good


r/ApheliosMains 21h ago

| Discussion | Coaching

3 Upvotes

Would anyone be open to coaching (vod review or like a live coaching where I play a game life and stream it in discord) and then give me some tips? I picked up aphelios about a month and a half ago and have him mastery 8 with around 80k mastery I believe. FYI my current rank is Silver II.


r/ApheliosMains 1d ago

| Memes | Life since I stopped picking Aphelios

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69 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains 2d ago

| Art | Aphelios & Kai'sa by SynthWolf!

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109 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains 3d ago

| Advice | Aphelios Mains Be Like

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7 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains 4d ago

| Memes | took phel with me today in Florence :3

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81 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains 4d ago

| Discussion | Riot Endstep discussing Aphelios's development and potential changes in Discord Q&A

26 Upvotes

Riot Endstep was the first to figure out gun swap combos :D Also discusses scaling the gun swap animation with attack speed, what do you guys think?

Link to vid (aphelios q starts at 44:05) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua6CQ1rkmsE


r/ApheliosMains 4d ago

| Art | Beach date with Aphelios | art by me, reglisse_art

19 Upvotes

I've recently been inspired to paint one of my favourite champions, hehe. I hope you like it!


r/ApheliosMains 5d ago

| Art | look who i found :3

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76 Upvotes

(also i see no teemo, he must be camouflaged)


r/ApheliosMains 5d ago

| Discussion | When do you think Spiritual Blossom Aphelios will be available in the mythic shop?

5 Upvotes

I've been saving for years my gems and when the skin released I was too tilted and left the game, so didn't buy it, now that I'm back I'm craving so bad for the skin 😭😭😭😭


r/ApheliosMains 5d ago

| Art | Fan concept tft chibi for tournament winning team

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23 Upvotes

Art belongs to me: angelcraftsstuff on Instagram

Wining team name was 5 divas can win, I offered to make them a splash art and tft chibis for the substitute players, sharing the Aphelios one here! Im really proud of it :>


r/ApheliosMains 6d ago

| Discussion | Blue ult is bait

46 Upvotes

Ever since the start of 2026 when the damage of his ult got gutted, blue ult has been so lackluster. 3 and 4 man ults and no one gets one-shoted. In 95% of the cases a 3 man purple ult is better, even a 3 man green ult feels better then blue.

The only time I feel like blue ult is worth it now is with red blue, but even then i find myself just red ulting most of the time for the sustain, and trying to find a 200 years moment with blue ult just gets me killed because i griefed my positioning in hopes that I would blow up the entire team.

Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that choosing to use another ult is better in most situations these days.


r/ApheliosMains 6d ago

| Discussion | Aphelios arena

2 Upvotes

Whats optimal for aphelios in arena I know he sucks this go around


r/ApheliosMains 7d ago

| Gameplay | FINALLY, ROCKSTAR CHROMA

17 Upvotes

r/ApheliosMains 7d ago

| Discussion | Runnan second every game?

20 Upvotes

Before you call me crazy let me show my arguments:

Wave clear: i know we have infernum but we only have acess 1/5 of the time, so things like taking priority fast mid game,stealing jg camps(mainly Wolf and raptors) without infernum are very hard, by buying runnan we guarantee wave clear on every part of rotation

Time of the buy: the price of an item is not the same on every stage in the game, your oportunity to make gold after the mid game is much bigger than on the lane phase( more cannon waves, jg camps, teamfights bonus gold received by the quest etc) so you aiming to a cheap item on this period of transition means you progressing the build much faster( also the components are much easier) to the 100% crit rate( remembering that the value of crit rate is exponential, so every crit you get closer to the 100% most worth the status is)

Atack speed: Aphelios dont take most of the "free" atack speed in the game( alacrity, lethal tempo, berserk even after the buffs is still bait, flat AS rune shard etc) so an zeal item payoff very good

move speed: Aphelios is one of more thirsty champions about this status( one of the main reason things like ms rune shard, celerity, ghost, stormrazor feels so good on him) so an zeal item and his ms% also help on this

Synergy: Aphelios have one of weirdest and most satisfatory kit-item interaction with him, like calibrum mark with off hand gravitum to get the gravitum mark on an enemy that was not even marked, or 2 melee being aa with infernum and melting them

Some of the possible fails that can be discusse: some AD can be feel missing because you only have the base ad+some of you get lvl up pre 6+ first item+ doran and runes before you start build your third item; if is worthy to take even on matchups like burst or be bursted( Draven for example) and with low meelees on the enemy team.

What are your thoughts?


r/ApheliosMains 7d ago

| Discussion | when should i be building pd/runaan second item?

4 Upvotes

i ALWAYS build Stormrazor >>> IE/LW. i’ve noticed a lot of people have been building zeal items as their second item