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Defender Cassiopeia & Fiddlesticks

Also called Cassiopeia Rammus Fiddlesticks reroll · Defender reroll

3-cost reroll at level 7ConsistentCarried by Cassiopeia, Rammus & Fiddlesticks

Teamfight Tactics Set 18·Patch 18.5·Ranked games, Diamond+, last 6 days·Updated 27 Oct 2026, 05:16 UTC·Difficulty Medium

BTier
#4.61Avg Place
47.9%Top 4 %
8.3%Win %
1.7%Play Rate
25,051Games, 6 days
Grade by day
  1. B since 17 Oct

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
carry
3Rammus★★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
  • Sunfire Cape
carry
2Shen★★
1Leona★★
or
  • Rengar
1Ornn★★
or
  • Soraka

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Cassiopeia

How to play this

When
You hold Chain Vest and Needlessly Large Rod.
  • #4.45 alone8% of games
  • #4.54 with one other27% of games
  • #4.65 with two or more65% of games
Others on Cassiopeia or Rammus or Fiddlesticks in the lobby, over 28,923 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, #4.38 over 81,572 boards at all ranks. our rule Hold the rest:Chain Vest ×4Needlessly Large Rod ×3Tear of the Goddess ×2B.F. Sword ×2Negatron Cloak ×2Giant's BeltRecurve BowSparring Gloves
Level
Roll at level 7 until its 3-costs are 3-starred: Cassiopeia. Its games also end at level 9 (10%). Finishes at level 7.6 on average. Boards at its levels average 5.24 across every comp; this one averages 4.61, 0.63 better. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
Carries

Cassiopeia 3★ on 64% of boards

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

#4.36 over 6,182 games at all ranks

Rammus 3★ on 50% of boards

Ionic SparkSteadfast HeartSunfire Cape Ionic Spark, Steadfast Heart, Sunfire Cape

#4.36 over 1,219 games at all ranks

Fiddlesticks 3★ on 36% of boards

Adaptive HelmCrownguardTitan's Resolve Adaptive Helm, Crownguard, Titan's Resolve

#4.28 over 759 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 Ornn until Cassiopeia comes in at level 6.

Rammus' items go on Shen until Rammus comes in at level 6.

Fiddlesticks holds its own items from level 4.

Stage 3 Level 6 plan

Add Rammus and Cassiopeia.

320 real boards went out at level 6 holding four or more of its units. real

Stage 4 Level 7 measured

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

Add Lillia.

3★ targets: Cassiopeia 64% · Rammus 50% · Fiddlesticks 36%

50% 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 8.0 when they go out in stage 6.

Add Soraka.

40% of its games end at level 8.

Its games end around round 5-6 on average, with 8 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
BDefender Cassiopeia & Fiddlesticks
#4.61 avg47.9% top 425,051 games3-cost reroll at level 7
Carried by Cassiopeia, Rammus & Fiddlesticks
Only this one plays
Leona

Ranked games, last 6 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 6 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 98,513 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

750%840%910%
Lv 4planLeonaOrnnShenFiddlesticks41Rammus’s items on ShenCassiopeia’s items on Ornn
Lv 5planLeonaOrnnShenFiddlesticksLeBlancAddedLeBlanc421Rammus’s items on ShenCassiopeia’s items on LeBlanc
Lv 6realOrnnShenFiddlesticksLeonaRammusCassiopeiaAddedRammusCassiopeiaSoldLeBlanc521
Lv 750%LilliaCassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammusShenLeonaOrnnAddedLillia621
Lv 840%LilliaSorakaCassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammusShenLeonaOrnnAddedSoraka622
Lv 910%LilliaCassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammusShenLeonaOrnnIvernLuxAddedIvernLuxSoldSoraka61121Optionsall: #2.44 · 25% won · 1,163 gamesIvern + Lux#2.0031% won · 42Lux + Soraka#2.2030% won · 46Ivern + Soraka#2.3529% won · 101Kennen + Soraka#2.4021% won · 161 · most played

3★ targets Cassiopeia64% Rammus50% Fiddlesticks36%

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. 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.

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#4.366,182
CassiopeiaArchangel's StaffArchangel's StaffArchangel's StaffArchangel's StaffHextech GunbladeHextech Gunblade#4.392,357
CassiopeiaArchangel's StaffArchangel's StaffBlue BuffBlue BuffHextech GunbladeHextech Gunblade#4.152,040
RammusIonic SparkIonic SparkSteadfast HeartSteadfast HeartSunfire CapeSunfire Cape#4.361,219
RammusGargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateSpirit VisageSpirit VisageWarmog's ArmorWarmog's Armor#4.31918
RammusGargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateSteadfast HeartSteadfast HeartWarmog's ArmorWarmog's Armor#4.56816
FiddlesticksAdaptive HelmAdaptive HelmCrownguardCrownguardTitan's ResolveTitan's Resolve#4.28759

Components to hold Chain Vest ×4, Needlessly Large Rod ×4, Tear of the Goddess ×3, B.F. Sword ×2, Negatron Cloak ×2, Giant's Belt, Recurve Bow, Sparring Gloves

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 7LilliaCassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammusRengarShenOrnn4.50avg place16,966 gamesPlaysRengarInstead ofLeona
Lv 8AluneLilliaCassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammusShenLeonaOrnn3.28avg place4,669 gamesPlaysAluneInstead ofSoraka
Lv 8IvernLilliaCassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammusShenLeonaOrnn4.59avg place4,377 gamesPlaysIvernInstead ofSoraka
Lv 8AhriLilliaCassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammusShenLeonaOrnn3.57avg place3,345 gamesPlaysAhriInstead ofSoraka
Lv 7CassiopeiaFiddlesticksRammusRengarShenLeonaOrnn6.12avg place2,153 gamesPlaysRengarInstead ofLillia
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.

#4.01

Flora Fatalis 2: averages 4.01 here, against 4.88 at Flora Fatalis 1 (98,143 boards)

#2.86

Lunar 3: averages 2.86 here, against 3.37 at Lunar 2 (1,113 boards)

#4.19

Elderwood 3: averages 4.19 here, against 4.91 at Elderwood 5 (2,416 boards)

#4.17

Fae 2: averages 4.17 here, against 4.23 at Fae 4 (3,885 boards)

#4.21

Rapidfire 2: averages 4.21 here, against 4.87 at Rapidfire 3 (504 boards)

Reroll and economy

By ruleSuits this comp: it 3-stars a 3-cost in 81% of its boards (98,513)

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 (92,564 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier CapsHold the LineSoul AwakeningDark RitualEarly LearningsNO 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 (92,564 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.

Other comps in its lobbiesthe comps it placed clearly worse or better beside

How this comp placed in lobbies that held each comp below, against its own 4.60 average over 28,923 games of this patch at all ranks. Sharing a lobby is not a fight between two boards: part of each gap is the rest of the lobby, so read it as how it placed, not why. How we pick them.

Does well against

Placed 0.27 better on average in lobbies with Blossom Ahri & Sett (1,142 games)

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 & Fiddlesticks 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 (50%).

What items does Cassiopeia need?

Its most played build this patch is Archangel's Staff, Hextech Gunblade and Spear of Shojin: #4.36 over 6,182 games.

Is Defender Cassiopeia & Fiddlesticks good in patch 18.5?

Graded B in Diamond+: average place #4.61 and 48% top 4 over 25,051 Diamond+ games in the last 6 days. At all ranks it averages #4.60 over 28,923 games.

Is Defender Cassiopeia & Fiddlesticks contested?

Contest costs it little: with nobody else on Cassiopeia or Rammus or Fiddlesticks it placed #4.45 (8% of games), with one other #4.54 (27%), with two or more #4.65 (65%), over 28,923 games of this patch at all ranks.

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

At the top of the ladder

The newest boards of this comp from the players on our leaderboard, best placed first. A name opens that player’s games, board and items included.

  1. #1geolo69#EUNEChallenger · EUNE · 1,770 LP · level 7 · 2026-10-26
  2. #2Kişneyen Kivi#ぼっちChallenger · TR · 1,524 LP · level 7 · out at 6-5 · 2026-10-25
  3. #3Kachaxie#EUWChallenger · EUW · 1,651 LP · level 9 · out at 6-2 · 2026-10-26
  4. #4i am patoska#EUWChallenger · EUW · 1,503 LP · level 8 · out at 6-3 · 2026-10-26
  5. #4Zounderkite#1405Challenger · TR · 1,916 LP · level 8 · out at 6-2 · 2026-10-25
  6. #5Carpe Diem#0124Challenger · KR · 1,623 LP · level 9 · out at 5-5 · 2026-10-25

Traits

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

Defender6Spellweaver2next 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
Defender25.7368445.7510,23964.3687,578
Flora Fatalis14.8856,22024.0141,923
Spellweaver24.5487,28543.927,65964.081,004

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+25,051#4.6147.9%8.3%
All ranks28,923#4.6048.0%8.2%

Trend

Avg Place on each of the last 6 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
Defender Rengar & Cassiopeia—6#4.693,483
Defender Cassiopeia with Lillia—6#5.02297
Defender Aphelios—5#4.99198
Defender Cassiopeia & Rengar with Gnar—5#4.03178
Defender Lillia—5#4.0450
Defender Sivir & Lillia—4#4.79244
Defender Draven—4#4.96132
Defender Alune—4#4.7351