TFT CODEX

Executioner Vanguard

Fast 9A Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.4b ranked games.

Updated 12 Oct 2026, 20:18 UTC · Patch 18.4b

—Tier
—Avg Place
—Top 4 %
—Win %
0.0%Play Rate
—Games

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.1 on average.
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.6 · stage 5: 8.8 · stage 6: 9.1
Games end
Lv 8 18% · Lv 9 70% · Lv 10 12%
Vs its level
Finishes at level 8.9 on average. Boards at its levels average 3.76 across every comp; this one averages 4.90, 1.14 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.

Open in Builder

Final board

The whole board at level 9, where most of its games end. A dashed slot is one its games fill differently; an open one, no unit holds on a quarter of them.

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.

5Gnar★
5Kennen★
  • Thief's Gloves
  • Edge of Night
5Maokai★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
  • Spirit Visage
5Taric★
4Aphelios★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Kraken's Fury
  • Infinity Edge
4Ezreal★★
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Last Whisper
  • Infinity Edge
3Diana★★
5Aluneflex
4Lilliaflex

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 8 up it is measured over 1,046 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned.

818%970%1012%
Lv 4planRakanXayahYunaraDiana22
Lv 5planRakanXayahEliseYunaraDianaAddedElise32
Lv 6planRakanXayahEliseYunaraDianaHecarimAddedHecarim42
Lv 7planDianaApheliosRakanXayahHecarimEliseYunaraAddedAphelios4222
Lv 818%GnarTaricApheliosEzrealDianaLilliaMaokaiKennenAddedGnarTaricEzrealLilliaMaokaiKennenSoldRakanXayahHecarimEliseYunara11222
Lv 970%AluneGnarKennenMaokaiTaricApheliosEzrealDianaLilliaAddedAlune111322
Lv 1012%AluneGnarKennenMaokaiTaricApheliosEzrealDianaLilliaAmumuAddedAmumu11132222

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

How these rows are made

Level 8 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.

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
ApheliosGuinsoo's Rageblade#4.81-0.10368
MaokaiGargoyle Stoneplate#4.47-0.44245
AluneSpear of Shojin#4.47-0.43230

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. A 2 on a portrait: that unit takes two team slots.

Lv 9Elder Dragon2GnarMaokaiTaricApheliosLilliaSentinelDiana5.58avg place132 gamesPlaysElder Dragon2SentinelInstead ofAluneKennenEzreal
Lv 9AluneGnarMaokaiTaricEzrealLilliaSorakaFiddlesticks+1 open5.51avg place108 gamesPlaysSorakaFiddlesticksInstead ofKennenApheliosDiana
Lv 9AluneGnarKennenTaricEzrealMorganaSettDiana+1 open4.93avg place107 gamesPlaysMorganaSettInstead ofMaokaiApheliosLillia
Lv 9GnarKennenMaokaiTaricApheliosEzrealDianaHecarim+1 open5.63avg place102 gamesPlaysHecarimInstead ofAluneLillia
Lv 9GnarKennenMaokaiTaricApheliosEzrealLilliaDianaOrnn4.74avg place92 gamesPlaysOrnnInstead ofAlune

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 4.11 here, against 4.85 at Lunar 2 (726 boards)

    Sun and MoonSun and Moon+
  • Elderwood 5 averages 3.93 here, against 4.60 at Elderwood 3 (512 boards)

    Nature's Shelter
  • Flora Fatalis 1 averages 4.92 here, against 5.14 at Flora Fatalis 2 (243 boards)

    Consuming Flora

By ruleSuits this comp it averages level 8.92, so levelling is the plan (1046 boards)

Birthday PresentBuild A BudGoing LongGolden GambleGolden Gamble+Golden Gamble++Hard CommitHedge FundInvestment Strategy IILevel Up!Lucky GlovesLucky Gloves+
63 moreLuxury SubscriptionMoney MonsoonPrismatic DestinyPrismatic Destiny+Shimmerscale EssenceShopping SpreeThe Trait TreeThe Trait Tree+Urf's Grab BagAdvanced LoanAdvanced Loan+Big Grab BagBirthday ReunionBooster PackBooster Pack+Booster Pack++Clear MindCluttered MindExclusive CustomizationExplosive GrowthExplosive Growth+Gold DestinyGold Destiny+Hard BargainHeroic Grab BagHeroic Grab Bag+Heroic Grab Bag++HustlerInfinity ProtectionInvestment Strategy ILate Game ScalingMalicious MonetizationMax BuildMoney HungryMoney Hungry+Patient StudyPilferSlammin'Slammin'+Solo LevelingSpeedy Double KillSpreading RootsSpreading Roots+The Golden DragonTime SkipCalled ShotCaretaker's AllyCognitive TaxCognitive Tax+ExpeditionFeeling LuckyGood For Something IIron AssetsKick StartKingslayerLate Game SpecialistOne, Two, Five!Pandora's BenchSilver DestinySilver Destiny+Silver Destiny++Silver SpoonYoung and Wild and Free
Works against it: Not a reroll comp (15)

By ruleNot a reroll comp it 3-stars a unit in under 10% of boards, averaging level 8.92 (1046)

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

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

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. #29Z Maikel#9ZGGChallenger · LAS · 2,358 LP · level 9 · out at 6-3 · 2026-10-06
  2. #6Showtime#2004Challenger · NA · 1,508 LP · level 9 · out at 5-3 · 2026-10-02

Traits

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

Attuned1Emerald Aspect1Old Growth1Lunar3next 4Executioner2next 3Vanguard2next 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
Executioner24.7746533.97145
Lunar24.8550234.1122444.2564
Vanguard24.8371444.40117

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+228#4.9141.7%13.6%
All ranks327#4.9140.4%11.3%

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.

CompTierShared unitsAvg PlaceGames
Elderwood Draven & MaokaiA5#4.2778,645
Lunar Alune—4#4.148,543
Vanguard Kha'Zix Defender—4#3.61556
Elderwood Vanguard—4#5.20159
Elderwood Executioner—4#4.28156
Elderwood Aphelios—4#6.5799
Elderwood Alune Lunar—4#4.0989
Elderwood Taric—4#4.3887