TFT CODEX

Elderwood Defender

Fast 8Consistent

Updated 30 Sep 2026, 02:27 UTC · Patch 18.3

DTier
#6.43Avg Place
16.1%Top 4 %
1.7%Win %
0.1%Play Rate
1,509Games

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.7 on average.
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.9 · stage 5: 8.3 · stage 6: 8.7
Games end
Lv 7 8% · Lv 8 46% · Lv 9 36%

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Final board

The whole board at level 8, where most of its games end. The core — the units on most of this family’s boards — at the star level and with the items they were measured holding; then the flex slots, dashed, with the unit its boards put there most. A slot no unit holds on a quarter of its boards is open. Under a unit, or: the champions its boards play in that slot instead, measured on its level-8 boards this patch.

The Night Arena: an obsidian TFT board lit in gold
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Riot's match data records no positions, so this board is placed by rule from each champion's attack range: melee in front, ranged behind, and the carries holding the most items in the back corners. The level buttons show the board at each level: the dashed ones are planned by rule (see How it’s played), the rest measured; the gold one adds the champion that placed best at that level.

4Ezreal★★
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Last Whisper
  • Infinity Edge
2Alistar★★
or
  • Lillia
  • Soraka
2Shen★★
or
  • Taric
1Ornn★★
1Xayah★★
or
  • Kennen
  • Draven
  • Maokai
4Amumuflex
or
  • Aphelios
3Hecarimflex
or
  • Akali
  • Ivern
1Varusflex

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

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 10,215 games; below that it is planned.

52%66%78%846%936%102%
Lv 4planOrnnVarusXayahAlistar32
Lv 5realXayahOrnnAlistarVarusHecarimAddedHecarim42
Lv 66%AlistarShenOrnnVarusXayahAkaliAddedShenAkaliSoldHecarim3322
Lv 78%AlistarShenOrnnVarusXayahHecarimLeBlancAddedHecarimLeBlancSoldAkali5222
Lv 846%AmumuEzrealHecarimAlistarShenOrnnXayahVarusAddedAmumuEzrealSoldLeBlanc5322
Lv 936%AmumuEzrealHecarimAlistarShenOrnnXayahTaricVarusAddedTaric153222

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, all ranks, the last 14 days. 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 this patch, 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.

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, all ranks.

ChampionItemAvg Placevs compGames
EzrealSpear of Shojin#6.33-0.102,924
EzrealLast Whisper#6.29-0.141,930
XayahGuinsoo's Rageblade#6.41-0.011,892

At the top of the ladder

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

  1. #8우 리#TFTChallenger · KR · 1,386 LP · level 8 · out at 4-3 · 2026-09-27
  2. #8ea7 lbt1#0910Challenger · VN · 1,610 LP · level 8 · out at 4-6 · 2026-09-27
  3. #4ea7 lbt1#0910Challenger · VN · 1,610 LP · level 8 · out at 5-6 · 2026-09-19

Variations

Other boards this comp ends on. Each row is a version’s usual final board and what it plays instead of this comp’s own board at that level; all of them count in the numbers above.

Lv 9GnarIvernAmumuHecarimAlistarShenOrnnVarusXayah5.69avg place657 gamesPlaysGnarIvernInstead ofEzrealTaric
Lv 8DravenAmumuEzrealHecarimAlistarShenOrnnVarus7.18avg place498 gamesPlaysDravenInstead ofXayah
Lv 8GnarAmumuEzrealAlistarShenAkaliVarusXayah6.82avg place488 gamesPlaysGnarAkaliInstead ofHecarimOrnn
Lv 9IvernKennenTaricAmumuEzrealAlistarShenOrnnXayah6.82avg place452 gamesPlaysIvernKennenInstead ofHecarimVarus
Lv 8AmumuEzrealHecarimAlistarLeBlancShenOrnnXayah5.88avg place382 gamesPlaysLeBlancInstead ofVarus

Traits

Active on the core board, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

Elderwood4next 5Defender2next 4Brawler1next 2Executioner1next 2Fae1next 2Inferno1next 2Rapidfire1next 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
Defender26.515,64545.83265
Elderwood36.884,66056.252,72675.371,24294.5261
Executioner26.402,40736.0843845.21118
Fae26.111,40144.7364
Flora Fatalis16.251,12325.88190
Inferno26.642,78436.813,41856.2569075.5980
Lunar25.7348535.3771
Rapidfire26.374,47035.8974445.3618054.2767
Vanguard26.083,12245.2395

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+1,509#6.4316.1%1.7%
All ranks3,632#6.4315.2%2.0%

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
Elderwood EzrealB4#4.59103,285
Elderwood Ezreal ExecutionerS4#4.174,692
Elderwood Ezreal Brawler Executioner—4#5.28265

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.

  • Lunar 3 averages 5.37 here, against 5.73 at Lunar 2 (556 boards)

    Sun and MoonSun and Moon+
  • Elderwood 9 averages 4.52 here, against 6.88 at Elderwood 3 (4721 boards)

    Nature's Shelter
  • Fae 4 averages 4.73 here, against 6.11 at Fae 2 (1465 boards)

    Embiggen
  • Flora Fatalis 2 averages 5.88 here, against 6.25 at Flora Fatalis 1 (1313 boards)

    Consuming Flora
  • Rapidfire 5 averages 4.27 here, against 6.37 at Rapidfire 2 (4537 boards)

    U.R.F

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.