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Defender Cassiopeia with Lillia

Also called Cassiopeia reroll · Defender reroll

3-cost reroll at level 7ConsistentCarried by Cassiopeia

Teamfight Tactics Set 18·Patch 18.5·Ranked games, Diamond+, last 5 days·Updated 26 Oct 2026, 23:18 UTC·Difficulty Medium

No tier yet Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 264 in the last 5 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.

S comps in Diamond+ now: Riftbeast Elder Dragon, Riftbeast Elder Dragon & Draven. Every grade: the tier list.

Final board

The board at level 7, where most of its games end, from its games at all ranks over the last 14 days. Press a level to see the board on the way.

The Night Arena: an obsidian TFT board lit in gold
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Positions are our rule by attack range, not measured. Riot's match data has no positions. Dashed levels are planned.

4Lillia★★
  • Thief's Gloves
  • Protector's Vow
3Cassiopeia★★★
  • Archangel's Staff
  • Hextech Gunblade
  • Spear of Shojin
carry
3Fiddlesticks★★
  • Titan's Resolve
  • Adaptive Helm
  • Ionic Spark
3Rammus★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
  • Sunfire Cape
2Shen★★
1Ornn★★
5Maokaiflex

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Cassiopeia

How to play this

When
You hold B.F. Sword and Needlessly Large Rod.
  • #5.04 alone51% of games
  • #5.21 with one other38% of games
Others on Cassiopeia in the lobby, over 303 games of this patch at all ranks.
Items
Slam Archangel's Staff first (Needlessly Large Rod + Tear Of The Goddess): of Cassiopeia's most played build, the item its boards placed best with, #4.67 over 860 boards at all ranks. our rule Hold the rest:B.F. Sword ×2Needlessly Large RodTear of the Goddess
Level
Roll at level 7 until its 3-costs are 3-starred: Cassiopeia. Its games also end at level 9 (9%). Finishes at level 7.5 on average. Boards at its levels average 5.29 across every comp; this one averages 5.06, 0.23 better. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
Carries

Cassiopeia 3★ on 61% of boards

Archangel's StaffHextech GunbladeSpear of Shojin Archangel's Staff, Hextech Gunblade, Spear of Shojin

#4.69 over 58 games at all ranks

Stage by stage

Stages 2 and 3 are our plan; 4 to 6 are the level its players were measured at.

Stage 2 Level 4 plan

Play Leona, Ornn, Shen and Fiddlesticks.

Cassiopeia's items go on Fiddlesticks until Cassiopeia comes in at level 7.

Stage 3 Level 6 plan

Add Rammus and Veigar.

Stage 4 Level 7 measured

Its players average 7.1 when they go out in stage 4.

Add Lillia, Cassiopeia and Maokai; sell Veigar and Leona.

3★ targets: Cassiopeia 61% · Rammus 45% · Fiddlesticks 29%

53% of its games end at level 7.

Level 7 around 4-1: about 57 rolls (114 gold) to 3-star Cassiopeia; about 75 if three copies of each are on other boards. model

Stage 5 Level 7 measured

Its players average 7.3 when they go out in stage 5.

Stage 6 Level 8 measured

Its players average 7.9 when they go out in stage 6.

Sell Maokai.

38% of its games end at level 8.

Its games end around round 5-6 on average, with 9 gold left.

Which version?

Four comps play Defender around Cassiopeia. They share the five below; the units only one of them plays tell you which one you are on.

Every version plays
or Ornnor ShenCassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammus
You are here
No tier yetDefender Cassiopeia with Lillia
— avg— top 4264 games3-cost reroll at level 7
Carried by Cassiopeia
Only this one plays
or Maokai

Ranked games, last 5 days, Diamond+. A dashed portrait is a flex slot: many of its games play another unit there.

No tier yet fewer than 400 games in 5 days   Not graded played too rarely to grade

Board at every levelthe board level by level, with its traits and the options its games play

The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 7 up it is measured over 1,158 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

753%838%99%
Lv 4planLeonaOrnnShenFiddlesticks41Cassiopeia’s items on Fiddlesticks
Lv 5planLeonaOrnnVeigarShenFiddlesticksAddedVeigar421Cassiopeia’s items on Veigar
Lv 6planOrnnShenFiddlesticksRammusVeigarLeonaAddedRammus521Cassiopeia’s items on Veigar
Lv 753%LilliaCassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammusShenOrnnMaokai+1 openAddedLilliaCassiopeiaMaokaiSoldVeigarLeona1521
Lv 838%LilliaCassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammusShenOrnnMaokaiViAddedVi15221
Lv 99%MaokaiLilliaCassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammusShenOrnnVi+1 open15221

3★ targets Cassiopeia61% Rammus45% Fiddlesticks29%

How these rows are made

Level 7 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. 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.

Item builds, measuredthe carries’ three-item builds, with average place and games

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

ChampionBuildAvg PlaceGames
CassiopeiaArchangel's StaffArchangel's StaffHextech GunbladeHextech GunbladeSpear of ShojinSpear of Shojin#4.6958
CassiopeiaArchangel's StaffArchangel's StaffBlue BuffBlue BuffHextech GunbladeHextech Gunblade#4.3321

Components to hold B.F. Sword ×2, Needlessly Large Rod ×2, Tear of the Goddess ×2

Variationswhat close versions add or leave out, and how they placed

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 7GnarLilliaCassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammusShenOrnn5.55avg place92 gamesAddsGnar
Augments that fitby trait and by our rule; no augment has a number of its own

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.

#4.83

Flora Fatalis 2: averages 4.83 here, against 4.86 at Flora Fatalis 1 (1,154 boards)

Reroll and economy

By ruleSuits this comp: it 3-stars a 3-cost in 75% of its boards (1,158)

Commerce CoreInvested+Invested++Prismatic TicketUpward MobilityCalculated LossCognitive OverloadEpic RolldownEpochEpoch+Trade SectorTrade Sector+
3 moreCrafted CraftingPatience Is A VirtueRecombobulator

AP carry

By ruleSuits this carry: Cassiopeia is built for ability power here (1,081 boards)

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

By ruleWrong damage type: Cassiopeia is built for ability power here (1,081 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.

Questionswhat people search for about this comp, answered from this page

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

How do you play Defender Cassiopeia with Lillia in TFT Set 18?

3-cost reroll at level 7. Rolls at level 7 until its 3-costs are 3-starred: Cassiopeia. Its games end most often at level 7 (53%).

What items does Cassiopeia need?

Its most played build this patch is Archangel's Staff, Hextech Gunblade and Spear of Shojin: #4.69 over 58 games.

Is Defender Cassiopeia with Lillia good in patch 18.5?

Not graded yet: 303 games at all ranks in the last 5 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #5.06.

Is Defender Cassiopeia with Lillia contested?

Contest costs it little: with nobody else on Cassiopeia it placed #5.04 (51% of games), with one other #5.21 (38%), over 303 games of this patch at all ranks.

More about this compladder boards, traits, by bracket, trend, also played

Traits

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

Old Growth1Defender5next 6Spellweaver2next 4Flora Fatalis1next 2

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
Defender46.0820964.58948
Flora Fatalis14.8690524.83249

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+264#5.0639.4%6.8%
All ranks303#5.0639.6%6.3%

Trend

Avg Place on each of the last 5 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.