TFT CODEX

Inferno Aphelios Rapidfire

Fast 9Carried by Aphelios

Updated 30 Sep 2026, 06:18 UTC · Patch 18.3

—Tier
#5.27Avg Place
36.8%Top 4 %
7.5%Win %
0.0%Play Rate
601Games
Aphelios

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.1 on average.
Play it when
you hold Recurve Bow and B.F. Sword, and nobody else is on Aphelios (it placed #5.24 then, #5.58 against two or more)
Roll
Level 9 around 5-1: about 20 rolls (40 gold) to 2-star Aphelios; about 30 if three copies of each are on other boards. model
Build
Aphelios Aphelios Guinsoo's RagebladeInfinity EdgeKraken's Fury Guinsoo's Rageblade, Infinity Edge, Kraken's Fury · 38 games · #4.34
Components
Recurve BowRecurve Bow ×2 · B.F. SwordB.F. Sword · Needlessly Large RodNeedlessly Large Rod · Negatron CloakNegatron Cloak · Sparring GlovesSparring Gloves
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.1 · stage 5: 8.5 · stage 6: 9.1
Games end
Lv 8 39% · Lv 9 49% · Lv 10 8%

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Final board

The whole board at level 9, 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-9 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.

4Amumu★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
  • Spirit Visage
or
  • Diana
4Aphelios★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Infinity Edge
  • Kraken's Fury
carry
or
  • Sivir
  • Ashe
2Shen★★
1Varus★★
5Maokaiflex
or
  • Lux
  • Xayah
5Taricflex
4Lilliaflex
3Viflex
or
  • Kennen
1Rakanflex

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 2,746 games; below that it is planned.

73%839%949%108%
Lv 4planRakanVarusXayahVi222Aphelios’s items on Xayah
Lv 5planRakanVarusXayahShenViAddedShen2222Aphelios’s items on Xayah
Lv 6realVarusShenAmumuRakanViXayahAddedAmumu3322
Lv 7realAmumuViVarusShenRakanApheliosLilliaAddedApheliosLilliaSoldXayah33222
Lv 839%AmumuApheliosLilliaViShenVarusRakanMaokaiAddedMaokai143222
Lv 949%MaokaiTaricAmumuApheliosLilliaViShenRakanVarusAddedTaric11432222
Lv 108%MaokaiTaricAmumuApheliosLilliaViShenRakanVarusLuxAddedLux111432222

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, 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.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Aphelios, over 1,181 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#5.2426%
1 other player#5.3944%
2 or more#5.5830%

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
ApheliosGuinsoo's Rageblade#4.78-0.63941
ApheliosInfinity Edge#4.62-0.79675
ApheliosKraken's Fury#4.57-0.84546

Full builds

The carries’ most played three-item builds this patch, with the placement of the games they were built in.

ChampionBuildAvg PlaceGames
ApheliosGuinsoo's RagebladeGuinsoo's RagebladeInfinity EdgeInfinity EdgeKraken's FuryKraken's Fury#4.3438
ApheliosDeathbladeDeathbladeGuinsoo's RagebladeGuinsoo's RagebladeInfinity EdgeInfinity Edge#5.6221

Components to hold Recurve Bow ×2, B.F. Sword, Needlessly Large Rod, Negatron Cloak, Sparring Gloves

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. #1guffee#tftChallenger · EUNE · 2,118 LP · level 9 · 2026-09-29
  2. #4maxxine#sleepChallenger · SEA · 1,473 LP · level 9 · out at 6-2 · 2026-09-27

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 8TaricAmumuSivirViShenRakanVarusXayah6.85avg place152 gamesPlaysTaricSivirXayahInstead ofApheliosLilliaMaokai
Lv 9LuxTaricAmumuApheliosEzrealLilliaShenRakanVarus4.14avg place152 gamesPlaysLuxEzrealInstead ofMaokaiVi
Lv 8MaokaiAmumuLilliaRammusViShenLeonaRakan5.79avg place145 gamesPlaysRammusLeonaInstead ofApheliosVarus
Lv 8LuxAmumuEzrealSentinelViShenRakanVarus6.90avg place134 gamesPlaysLuxEzrealSentinelInstead ofApheliosLilliaMaokai
Lv 8TaricAmumuApheliosLilliaMama BeakRammusShenVarus5.55avg place131 gamesPlaysMama BeakRammusTaricInstead ofViRakanMaokai

Traits

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

Inferno3next 5Rapidfire2next 3Defender1next 2Juggernaut1next 2Lunar1next 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
Defender25.021,52645.41121
Fae25.3678044.21405
Inferno24.8293535.691,04355.3849774.3877
Juggernaut25.571,40144.84910
Lunar24.5655634.35115
Rapidfire25.241,19234.8141344.4513053.8181
Vanguard24.981,50943.8795

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+601#5.2736.8%7.5%
All ranks1,181#5.4134.1%7.1%

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
Inferno Aphelios—4#5.352,323
Inferno Lunar—4#4.52352
Rapidfire Aphelios (Amumu)—4#4.96247

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 4.35 here, against 4.56 at Lunar 2 (671 boards)

    Sun and MoonSun and Moon+
  • Fae 4 averages 4.21 here, against 5.36 at Fae 2 (1185 boards)

    Embiggen
  • Rapidfire 5 averages 3.81 here, against 5.24 at Rapidfire 2 (1273 boards)

    U.R.F

By ruleSuits this carry Aphelios is built for attack damage here (1503 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier BladesHold the LineSoul AwakeningCybernetic ImplantsEarly LearningsNO SCOUT NO PIVOTTons of Stats!Focused FireStand United
Works against it: Wrong damage type (3)

By ruleWrong damage type Aphelios is built for attack damage here (1503 boards)

Deadlier CapsDark RitualSeraphim's Staff

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.