TFT CODEX

Coven Elise Vanguard

Fast 8ConsistentCarried by EliseA Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.4b ranked games.

Updated 19 Oct 2026, 06:18 UTC · ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+ · Patch 18.4b

—Tier
#7.10Avg Place
7.6%Top 4 %
1.7%Win %
<0.1%Play Rate
409Games, 7 days

When

Take it when you hold Chain Vest and Recurve Bow

  • #6.80 alone66% of games
  • #6.68 with one other29% of games
  • #6.39 with two or more5% of games

Others on Elise in the lobby, over 1,985 games of this patch at all ranks.

Contest moves it little: it placed #6.80 with nobody else on Elise and #6.39 against two or more.

Slam order our rule

First Titan's Resolve (Recurve Bow + Chain Vest)

Of Elise's most played build, the item its boards placed best with: #6.08 over 310 boards.

Then: Chain Vest, Recurve Bow, Needlessly Large Rod, Negatron Cloak

Elise holds its own items from level 4. plan

Level plan

  1. Stage 2 Lv 4 plan
  2. Stage 3 Lv 6 plan
  3. Stage 4 Lv 7.8 measured
  4. Stage 5 Lv 8.1 measured
  5. Stage 6 Lv 8.5 measured

Its games end at Lv 7 15% · Lv 8 52% · Lv 9 24%

Carries

Elise 3★ on 20% of boards

Gargoyle StoneplateGuinsoo's RagebladeTitan's Resolve Gargoyle Stoneplate, Guinsoo's Rageblade, Titan's Resolve

#5.87 over 123 games

Elise

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.5 on average.
Play it when
you hold Chain Vest and Recurve Bow
Build
Elise Elise Gargoyle StoneplateGuinsoo's RagebladeTitan's Resolve Gargoyle Stoneplate, Guinsoo's Rageblade, Titan's Resolve · 123 games · #5.87
Components
Chain VestChain Vest ×2 · Recurve BowRecurve Bow ×2 · Needlessly Large RodNeedlessly Large Rod · Negatron CloakNegatron Cloak
Contested?
Others holding Elise: nobody else: #6.80 · 1 other: #6.68 · 2+ others: #6.39
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.8 · stage 5: 8.1 · stage 6: 8.5
Games end
Lv 7 15% · Lv 8 52% · Lv 9 24%
Vs its level
Finishes at level 7.8 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.97 across every comp; this one averages 7.09, 2.12 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.

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Final board

The whole board at level 8, where most of its games end, drawn from its games at all ranks over the last 14 days. A dashed slot is one its games fill differently; an open one, no unit holds on a quarter of them. Under a unit, or: who its games play there instead.

The Night Arena: an obsidian TFT board lit in gold
★★
★★
★★
★★
★★

Positions are our rule, by attack range: melee in front, ranged behind, the most-itemed carries in the back corners. Riot's match data has none. Dashed level buttons are planned, the rest measured; the gold one adds the champion that placed best there.

3Cassiopeia★★
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Jeweled Gauntlet
or
  • Vi
  • Nidalee
3Diana★★
2Caitlyn★★
2Elise★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
carry
1Camille★★
or
  • Hecarim
4Apheliosflex
or
  • Ashe
4Morganaflex
4Sentinelflex

Paste it into the game’s Team Planner to have these champions marked in your shop.

Stage by stage

What to do at each stage, from the numbers below: stages 2 and 3 are our plan, 4 to 6 the level its players were measured at.

Stage 2 Level 4 plan

Play Camille, Elise, Diana and Rakan.

Elise holds its own items from level 4.

Stage 3 Level 6 plan

Add Cassiopeia and Caitlyn; sell Rakan.

6% of its games end at level 6.

Stage 4 Level 8 measured

Its players average 7.8 when they go out in stage 4.

Add Morgana.

52% of its games end at level 8.

Stage 5 Level 8 measured

Its players average 8.1 when they go out in stage 5.

Stage 6 Level 9 measured

Its players average 8.5 when they go out in stage 6.

24% of its games end at level 9.

Its games end around round 5-1 on average, with 18 gold left.

How it’s played

The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 6 up it is measured over 2,268 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

51%66%715%852%924%101%
Lv 4planCamilleEliseDianaRakan32
Lv 5realCamilleCaitlynEliseCassiopeiaDianaAddedCaitlynCassiopeiaSoldRakan422
Lv 66%CassiopeiaDianaCaitlynEliseCamille+1 open422
Lv 715%CassiopeiaDianaCaitlynEliseCamilleMorganaApheliosAddedMorganaAphelios5222
Lv 852%MorganaCassiopeiaDianaCaitlynEliseCamilleApheliosSentinelAddedSentinel53222
Lv 924%MorganaCassiopeiaDianaCaitlynEliseCamilleSentinelAsheAmumuAddedAsheAmumuSoldAphelios53222

Not a reroll comp: nothing is 3-starred on even 1 board in 5.

How these rows are made

Level 6 and up are the boards this comp’s games ended on. Riot’s match data keeps only that last board, so the levels below are planned by one rule from this comp’s own units and traits and Riot’s shop odds, and marked plan — how the rule works. Hover a trait badge for what it does. Rows marked real are the boards of the games that went out at that level holding four or more of this comp’s units — real boards on the way to it, not its own games. Under a measured level, its options: what its games put in the slots past that level’s core, best placed first, with average place, win rate and games beside the level’s own. All of them went out at that level, so none is flattered by having got further. The board draws the first, in a gold ring; the most played is named among them. The row marked best adds the champion that placed best at the level above.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Elise, over 1,985 games of this patch at all ranks. We keep all eight boards of every game, so this is measured, not guessed; part of the gap is the lobby itself, so read it as how it placed, not only why.

Others holding itAvg PlaceShare of games
Nobody else#6.8066%
1 other player#6.6829%
2 or more#6.395%

Questions

What people search for about this comp, answered from the numbers on this page.

How do you play Coven Elise Vanguard in TFT Set 18?

Fast 8. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.5 on average. Its games end most often at level 8 (52%).

What items does Elise need?

Its most played build this patch is Gargoyle Stoneplate, Guinsoo's Rageblade and Titan's Resolve: #5.87 over 123 games.

Is Coven Elise Vanguard good in patch 18.4b?

In Diamond+: average place #7.10 and 8% top 4 over 409 Diamond+ games in the last 7 days. At all ranks it averages #6.77 over 1,027 games.

Is Coven Elise Vanguard contested?

Contest costs it little: with nobody else on Elise it placed #6.80 (66% of games), with one other #6.68 (29%), with two or more #6.39 (5%), over 1,985 games of this patch at all ranks.

Items

The three items this comp’s carry was measured holding most often, the placement of the boards it held them on, and the difference against the comp’s own average. Every board of the family at all ranks over the last 14 days.

ChampionItemAvg Placevs compGames
EliseGargoyle Stoneplate#6.36-0.41906
EliseWarmog's Armor#6.55-0.21427
EliseGuinsoo's Rageblade#6.17-0.60331

Full builds

The carries’ most played three-item builds this patch, with the placement of the games they were built in.

ChampionBuildAvg PlaceGames
EliseGargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateGuinsoo's RagebladeGuinsoo's RagebladeTitan's ResolveTitan's Resolve#5.87123
EliseGargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateSpirit VisageSpirit VisageWarmog's ArmorWarmog's Armor#5.7633
EliseGargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateWarmog's ArmorWarmog's Armor#6.3030

Components to hold Chain Vest ×2, Recurve Bow ×2, Needlessly Large Rod, Negatron Cloak

Variations

Other boards this comp ends on, over the last 14 days. Each row is a version’s usual final board and what it plays instead of this comp’s own board at that level.

Lv 8AsheMaokaiMorganaCassiopeiaDianaCaitlynEliseCamille6.76avg place281 gamesPlaysAsheMaokaiInstead ofApheliosSentinel
Lv 8LuxApheliosMorganaCassiopeiaDianaCaitlynEliseCamille6.51avg place261 gamesPlaysLuxInstead ofSentinel
Lv 8AmumuApheliosNidaleeSentinelDianaViEliseCamille7.14avg place182 gamesPlaysAmumuNidaleeViInstead ofMorganaCassiopeiaCaitlyn
Lv 8AsheIvernMorganaCassiopeiaDianaCaitlynEliseCamille6.39avg place136 gamesPlaysIvernAsheInstead ofApheliosSentinel
Lv 8DravenIvernAmumuMorganaCassiopeiaDianaViElise6.93avg place114 gamesPlaysDravenIvernAmumuViInstead ofCaitlynCamilleApheliosSentinel

Augments that fit

What each augment grants, set against what this comp measured: the same rule the overlay uses when it reads the three on offer. A measured line is the comp’s own placement at a trait level; a line by rule is a fact about the comp, such as the damage its carry is built for.

MeasuredThe comp’s own placement at a trait’s levels, beside the augments that give the trait.

#6.22

Coven 7: averages 6.22 here, against 7.15 at Coven 4 (694 boards)

#6.34

Lunar 3: averages 6.34 here, against 6.44 at Lunar 2 (849 boards)

AP carry

By ruleSuits this carry: Elise is built for ability power here (1,260 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier CapsHold the LineSoul AwakeningDouble TroubleEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTSeraphim's StaffTons of Stats!Stand United
Works against it: Wrong damage type (3)

By ruleWrong damage type: Elise is built for ability power here (1,260 boards)

Deadlier BladesCybernetic ImplantsFocused Fire

Riot’s match-v1 data does not report which augments a player took, so no augment has a number of its own on this page or anywhere else on the site. The augment reference lists what each one grants.

More about this comp

Traits

Active on the final board above, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

Coven5next 7Vanguard3next 4Invoker2next 3Lunar2next 3Ravager2next 4

What each tier of this comp’s own traits was worth on its boards. The small number under each average is how many boards sat at that tier.

TraitPlacement at each tier
Coven37.0256447.1561256.3180676.2282
Invoker26.4053636.1080
Lunar26.4474536.34104
Ravager26.711,43945.3976
Vanguard26.841,78645.66257

By bracket

Diamond, Master, Grandmaster and Challenger against the whole sample. Each board carries the tier of its own player where the sampler held it.

BracketGamesAvg PlaceTop 4 %Win %
Diamond+409#7.107.6%1.7%
All ranks1,027#6.7710.8%1.3%

Trend

Avg Place on each of the last 7 days. The bars are scaled to the range shown, so the shape is the comparison and the figure under each bar is the day.

Also played

Families sharing at least 4 core units with this one — the same board taken a different way.

CompTierShared unitsAvg PlaceGames
Coven Morgana & EliseD5#5.4730,431
Coven Elise & Draven—5#6.33180
Coven Elise—4#6.231,376
Coven Elise & Caitlyn—4#6.32374
Coven Rengar & Kha'Zix—4#6.5269
Coven Elise & Morgana Vanguard—4#6.5954