TFT CODEX

Fae Tristana Defender

Level 8ConsistentCarried by Tristana

Updated 28 Sep 2026, 08:18 UTC · Patch 18.3

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

Open in BuilderThe whole final board — the core at the star level it was measured at and with the carry’s items, and its flex picks — standing the way the board above does: by rule, and yours to move.

Tristana

Game plan

How it’s played
Level 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.3 on average.
Contested?
Others holding Tristana: nobody else: #6.14 · 1 other: #5.95
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.2 · stage 5: 7.6 · stage 6: 8.3
Games end
Lv 7 42% · Lv 8 42% · Lv 9 12%

Final board

The whole board at level 7, 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.

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.

4Lillia★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
  • Spirit Visage
3Fiddlesticks★★
  • Archangel's Staff
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
3Rammus★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
  • Spirit Visage
3Tristana★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Infinity Edge
  • Kraken's Fury
carry
1Rakan★★
1Xayah★★
2Shenflex

Also in the flex slots Ornn

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How it’s played

Where this comp’s games end, and its board at every level from 4 — a unit marked + is new since the level above. Level 7 and up are measured: the boards its games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days (1,242 games). 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.

62%742%842%912%102%
Lv 4planRakanXayahShenFiddlesticksDefender 2Fae 2Flora Fatalis 1Tristana’s items on Xayah
Lv 5planOrnnRakanXayahShenFiddlesticksDefender 3Fae 2Flora Fatalis 1Tristana’s items on Xayah
Lv 6planRakanXayahShenFiddlesticksTristanaOrnnDefender 3Fae 3Flora Fatalis 1
Lv 742%LilliaFiddlesticksRammusTristanaRakanXayahShen− Ornn
Lv 842%LilliaFiddlesticksRammusTristanaShenRakanXayahOrnn
Lv 912%LilliaFiddlesticksRammusTristanaShenRakanXayahGnarRengar− Ornn

3★ targets Tristana35% Rammus24%

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.2 · stage 5: 7.6 · stage 6: 8.3.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Tristana, over 377 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 itAvg PlaceShare of games
Nobody else#6.1464%
1 other player#5.9531%

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
TristanaGuinsoo's Rageblade#5.86-0.24891
TristanaInfinity Edge#5.97-0.13449
TristanaKraken's Fury#5.81-0.29302

Variations

Cores close enough to this one to be the same comp. Each line is what that version plays instead, how it placed and the games behind it; all of them are counted in the numbers above.

AddsLeaves outAvg PlaceGames
RengarVeigar, Xayah5.33157
OrnnShen, Veigar6.09153
Leona, ScuttlecrabFiddlesticks, Veigar6.3868
Elder Dragon, OrnnShen, Xayah5.3757
RengarRakan, Veigar4.6656

…and 5 smaller versions, 116 games between them. All of them are already counted in the numbers above; they are left off because no one of them is played often enough to plan around.

Traits

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

Fae4Defender3next 4Flora Fatalis1next 2Sprykin2next 3Elderwood1next 3Hunter1next 2Juggernaut1next 2Rapidfire1next 2Spellweaver1next 2Vanguard1next 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
Defender26.5130746.0083864.1089
Fae26.6410845.931,126
Flora Fatalis15.9083425.89236

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+145#6.2117.2%1.4%
All ranks377#6.1020.4%1.3%

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
Fae Tristana & Sivir—5#4.65165
Fae TristanaB4#4.6824,599
Elderwood Xayah—4#5.421,359
Fae Lillia—4#4.80328
Sprykin Tristana & Sivir—4#4.42298
Defender Flora Fatalis (Gnar)—4#4.25259
Fae Rengar—4#5.85184
Fae Ashe—4#3.16158

Augments

Riot’s match-v1 data does not report which augments a player took, so there is no augment number on this page and none anywhere else on the site. The augment reference lists what each one grants.