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Inferno Draven with Taric

Also called Draven Fast 8 · Inferno Fast 8

Fast 8ConsistentCarried by DravenA Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.5 ranked games.

Difficulty Easy None of our four difficulty signals apply

Updated 21 Oct 2026, 06:18 UTC · ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+ · Patch 18.5

Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 228 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.

Which version?

Three comps play Inferno around Draven. They share the four below; the units only one of them plays tell you which one you are on.

Every version plays
AmumuDravenor Maokaior Taric
Not gradedInferno Draven
#5.12 avg36.9% top 4835 gamesFast 9
Played on about 1 board in 2,000 this week; a grade needs 1 in 100.
Carried by Draven
Only this one plays
Ivernor Akali
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No tier yetInferno Draven with Taric
— avg— top 4228 gamesFast 8
Carried by Draven
Only this one plays
Alistaror Ornnor Ezreal

Ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+. A dashed portrait is a flex slot: many of its games play another unit there.

No tier yet fewer than 400 games this week   Not graded played too rarely to grade

When

Take it when you hold B.F. Sword and Recurve Bow

  • #6.95 alone50% of games
  • #7.01 with one other37% of games
  • #6.92 with two or more13% of games

Others on Draven in the lobby, over 1,084 games of this patch at all ranks.

Contest moves it little: it placed #6.95 with nobody else on Draven and #6.92 against two or more.

Slam order our rule

First Kraken's Fury (Recurve Bow + Negatron Cloak)

Of Draven's most played build, the item its boards placed best with: #6.87 over 351 boards.

Then: B.F. Sword ×2, Recurve Bow, Needlessly Large Rod

Draven's items go on Shen until Draven comes in at level 9. plan

Level plan

  1. Stage 2 Lv 4 plan
  2. Stage 3 Lv 6 plan
  3. Stage 4 Lv 8.6 measured
  4. Stage 5 Lv 8.7 measured
  5. Stage 6 Lv 9.0 measured

Its games end at Lv 8 31% · Lv 9 66% · Lv 10 2%

Carries

Draven 3★ on 0% of boards

DeathbladeGuinsoo's RagebladeKraken's Fury Deathblade, Guinsoo's Rageblade, Kraken's Fury

#6.89 over 100 games

Draven

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.0 on average.
Play it when
you hold B.F. Sword and Recurve Bow
Roll
Level 8 around 4-2: about 163 rolls (326 gold) to 2-star Draven; about 235 if three copies of each are on other boards. model
Build
Draven Draven DeathbladeGuinsoo's RagebladeKraken's Fury Deathblade, Guinsoo's Rageblade, Kraken's Fury · 100 games · #6.89
Components
B.F. SwordB.F. Sword ×2 · Recurve BowRecurve Bow ×2 · Needlessly Large RodNeedlessly Large Rod · Negatron CloakNegatron Cloak
Contested?
Others holding Draven: nobody else: #6.95 · 1 other: #7.01 · 2+ others: #6.92
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.6 · stage 5: 8.7 · stage 6: 9.0
Games end
Lv 8 31% · Lv 9 66% · Lv 10 2%
Vs its level
Finishes at level 8.7 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.00 across every comp; this one averages 7.12, 3.12 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.

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Final board

The whole board at level 9, where most of its games end, drawn from its games at all ranks over the last 14 days. A dashed slot is one its games fill differently; an open one, no unit holds on a quarter of them. Under a unit, or: who its games play there instead.

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; the gold one adds the champion that placed best there.

5Draven★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Kraken's Fury
  • Deathblade
carry
5Maokai★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
or
  • Sentinel
5Taric★
4Amumu★
or
  • Akali
2Alistar★★
2Shen★★
4Ezrealflex
or
  • Elder Dragon
1Ornnflex
1Varusflex

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

Stage by stage

What to do at each stage, from the numbers below: stages 2 and 3 are our plan, 4 to 6 the level its players were measured at.

Stage 2 Level 4 plan

Play Ornn, Varus, Alistar and Shen.

Draven's items go on Shen until Draven comes in at level 9.

Stage 3 Level 6 plan

Add Xayah and LeBlanc.

Stage 4 Level 9 measured

Its players average 8.6 when they go out in stage 4.

Add Draven, Maokai, Taric and Amumu; sell Varus, Xayah and LeBlanc.

66% of its games end at level 9.

Level 8 around 4-2: about 163 rolls (326 gold) to 2-star Draven; about 235 if three copies of each are on other boards. model

Stage 5 Level 9 measured

Its players average 8.7 when they go out in stage 5.

Stage 6 Level 9 measured

Its players average 9.0 when they go out in stage 6.

Its games end around round 5-1 on average, with 11 gold left.

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 1,068 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

71%831%966%102%
Lv 4planOrnnVarusAlistarShen22Draven’s items on Shen
Lv 5planOrnnVarusXayahAlistarShenAddedXayah3222Draven’s items on Xayah
Lv 6planOrnnVarusXayahAlistarLeBlancShenAddedLeBlanc4222Draven’s items on Xayah
Lv 7planOrnnVarusAlistarShenEzrealXayahLeBlancAddedEzreal5222Draven’s items on Xayah
Lv 831%MaokaiTaricAmumuEzrealAlistarShenOrnnVarusAddedMaokaiTaricAmumuSoldXayahLeBlanc113322
Lv 966%DravenMaokaiTaricAmumuAlistarShenOrnnVarusEzrealAddedDraven1113322

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. Under a measured level, its options: what its games put in the slots past that level’s core, 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.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Draven, over 1,084 games of this patch at all ranks. 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#6.9550%
1 other player#7.0137%
2 or more#6.9213%

Questions

What people search for about this comp, answered from the numbers on this page.

How do you play Inferno Draven with Taric in TFT Set 18?

Fast 8. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.0 on average. Its games end most often at level 9 (66%).

What items does Draven need?

Its most played build this patch is Deathblade, Guinsoo's Rageblade and Kraken's Fury: #6.89 over 100 games.

Is Inferno Draven with Taric good in patch 18.5?

At all ranks: average place #7.03 and 4% top 4 over 493 games in the last 7 days.

Is Inferno Draven with Taric contested?

Contest costs it little: with nobody else on Draven it placed #6.95 (50% of games), with one other #7.01 (37%), with two or more #6.92 (13%), over 1,084 games of this patch at all ranks.

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
DravenGuinsoo's Rageblade#6.93-0.09585
DravenKraken's Fury#6.87-0.16351
DravenDeathblade#6.92-0.11252

Full builds

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

ChampionBuildAvg PlaceGames
DravenDeathbladeDeathbladeGuinsoo's RagebladeGuinsoo's RagebladeKraken's FuryKraken's Fury#6.89100
DravenGuinsoo's RagebladeGuinsoo's RagebladeInfinity EdgeInfinity EdgeKraken's FuryKraken's Fury#6.8944
DravenDeathbladeDeathbladeGuinsoo's RagebladeGuinsoo's RagebladeInfinity EdgeInfinity Edge#7.1225

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

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 9DravenIvernMaokaiTaricAmumuAlistarShenOrnn+1 open6.99avg place205 gamesPlaysIvernInstead ofVarusEzreal
Lv 8MaokaiTaricAmumuEzrealHecarimShenOrnnVarus6.81avg place101 gamesPlaysHecarimInstead ofAlistar
Lv 9GnarMaokaiTaricAmumuEzrealAlistarShenVarusXayah7.36avg place86 gamesPlaysGnarXayahInstead ofDravenOrnn
Lv 9DravenElder Dragon2TaricSentinelAlistarShenOrnnVarus6.86avg place74 gamesPlaysElder Dragon2SentinelInstead ofMaokaiAmumuEzreal
Lv 9DravenIvernMaokaiEzrealAlistarShenAkaliOrnnXayah7.44avg place41 gamesPlaysIvernAkaliXayahInstead ofTaricAmumuVarus

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.

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 8.69 (1,068)

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

Traits

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

Bounty Seeker1Emerald Aspect1Old Growth1Inferno3next 5Elderwood3next 5Defender2next 4Juggernaut2next 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
Inferno26.9137237.02494

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#7.114.0%0.4%
All ranks493#7.034.5%0.6%

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 Draven & MaokaiA5#4.2794,823
Riftbeast Elder Dragon & DravenS4#4.23140,870
Inferno Draven—4#4.901,647
Defender Draven—4#5.06281
Brawler Draven—4#5.3582
Rapidfire Draven & Aphelios—4#6.0560
Inferno Sivir—4#5.2559
Executioner Draven—4#5.6856