Fae Aphelios & Brambleback
Fast 8Carried by Aphelios & BramblebackA Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.4b ranked games.
Updated 14 Oct 2026, 00:18 UTC · Patch 18.4b
Game plan
- How it’s played
- Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.9 on average.
- Play it when
- you hold B.F. Sword and Needlessly Large Rod
- Roll
- Level 8 around 4-2: about 22 rolls (44 gold) to 2-star Aphelios; about 33 if three copies of each are on other boards. model
- Build
Aphelios 
Fae Emblem, Guinsoo's Rageblade, Infinity Edge · 34 games · #4.76- Components
B.F. Sword ×2 · 
Needlessly Large Rod · 
Recurve Bow · 
Sparring Gloves · 
Spatula- Contested?
- Others holding Aphelios / Brambleback: 1 other: #4.71 · 2+ others: #4.94
- Pace
- Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.1 · stage 5: 8.2 · stage 6: 8.9
- Games end
- Lv 8 54% · Lv 9 38% · Lv 10 7%
- Vs its level
- Finishes at level 8.5 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.24 across every comp; this one averages 4.83, 0.59 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.Finishes at level 8.5 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.29 across every comp; this one averages 4.80, 0.51 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
Final board
The whole board at level 8, 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.
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.
Amumu★★- Gargoyle Stoneplate
- Warmog's Armor
Aphelios★★- Guinsoo's Rageblade
- Fae Emblem
- Infinity Edge
Brambleback★★- Fae Emblem
- Edge of Night
- Sterak's Gage
Lillia★★- Protector's Vow
- Gargoyle Stoneplate
- Spirit Visage
Diana★★Shen★★Rakan★★Xayah★★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 816 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned.
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22Aphelios’s items on XayahBrambleback’s items on AkaliAdded32222Aphelios’s items on XayahBrambleback’s items on AkaliAdded332
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133222222Not 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.
Contested?
How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Aphelios or Brambleback, over 306 games of this patch. 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 it | Avg Place | Share of games |
|---|---|---|
| 1 other player | #4.71 | 33% |
| 2 or more | #4.94 | 58% |
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.
| Champion | Item | Avg Place | vs comp | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aphelios | Guinsoo's Rageblade | #4.54 | -0.26 | 519 |
| Aphelios | Fae Emblem | #4.64 | -0.16 | 383 |
| Aphelios | Infinity Edge | #4.52 | -0.28 | 329 |
Full builds
The carries’ most played three-item builds this patch, with the placement of the games they were built in.
| Champion | Build | Avg Place | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aphelios | Fae EmblemGuinsoo's RagebladeInfinity Edge | #4.76 | 34 |
| Aphelios | Fae EmblemGuinsoo's Rageblade Kraken's Fury | #5.48 | 25 |
Components to hold B.F. Sword ×2, Needlessly Large Rod, Recurve Bow, Sparring Gloves, Spatula
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.
5.26avg place125 gamesPlaysInstead of+1 open4.54avg place69 gamesWithoutAugments 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 4.02 here, against 4.74 at Lunar 2 (681 boards)
Sun and Moon
Sun and Moon+Fae 4 averages 4.52 here, against 5.58 at Fae 2 (796 boards)
EmbiggenRapidfire 2 averages 4.62 here, against 4.65 at Rapidfire 3 (731 boards)
U.R.F
By ruleSuits this carry Aphelios is built for attack damage here (742 boards)
Baron's Lair
Coronation
Deadlier Blades
Hold the Line
Soul Awakening
Cybernetic Implants
Double Trouble
Early Learnings
NO SCOUT NO PIVOT
Tons of Stats!
Focused Fire
Stand UnitedWorks against it: Wrong damage type (3)
By ruleWrong damage type Aphelios is built for attack damage here (742 boards)
Deadlier Caps
Dark Ritual
Seraphim's StaffRiot’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.
- #4guffee#tftChallenger · EUNE · 1,898 LP · level 9 · out at 5-4 · 2026-10-13
Traits
Active on the final board above, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.
Fae3next 4Defender2next 4Inferno2next 3Juggernaut2next 4Lunar2next 3Rapidfire2next 3Ravager2next 4Vanguard2next 4What 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.
| Trait | Placement at each tier |
|---|---|
| Fae | 25.5810844.52688 |
| Inferno | 24.5149734.72179 |
| Lunar | 24.7456634.02115 |
| Rapidfire | 24.6253834.65193 |
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.
| Bracket | Games | Avg Place | Top 4 % | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond+ | 201 | #4.83 | 44.3% | 7.5% |
| All ranks | 306 | #4.80 | 44.8% | 7.8% |
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.
| Comp | Tier | Shared units | Avg Place | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inferno Aphelios Fae | — | 6 | #4.65 | 125 |
| Rapidfire Aphelios & Brambleback | A | 5 | #4.39 | 25,862 |
| Fae Aphelios & Kha'Zix | — | 4 | #5.62 | 4,865 |
| Fae Aphelios Blackthorn | — | 4 | #5.53 | 1,812 |
| Inferno Aphelios | — | 4 | #5.20 | 1,261 |
| Primal Nidalee & Sivir Adaptor | — | 4 | #4.93 | 629 |
| Summoner Aphelios & Lillia | — | 4 | #6.12 | 333 |
| Fae Aphelios Vanguard | — | 4 | #5.37 | 307 |