Juggernaut Aphelios Vanguard

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.1 on average.

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

Contested?

Others holding Aphelios: 1 other: #5.37 · 2+ others: #5.04

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.6 · stage 5: 8.7 · stage 6: 9.1

Games end

Lv 8 26% · Lv 9 68% · Lv 10 7%

Vs its level

Finishes at level 8.8 on average. Boards at its levels average 3.87 across every comp; this one averages 5.13, 1.26 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. 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.

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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.

5Ivern★

5Maokai★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmog's Armor
• Spirit Visage

5Taric★

4Amumu★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmog's Armor
• Spirit Visage

4Aphelios★★

• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Kraken's Fury
• Infinity Edge

carry

4Sentinel★★

• Protector's Vow
• Gargoyle Stoneplate

1Varus★★

5Elder Dragonflex

or

• Vi

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

Lv 4plan222Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 5planAdded322Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 6planAdded332Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 7planAdded4322Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 826%AddedSold1113222

Lv 968%2Added2Sold111132222

Lv 10best2Added1111132222The 10th championall: #1.73 · 59% won · 150 gamesLux#1.4285% won · 33Draven#1.6065% won · 65Alune#1.6458% won · 33Kennen#1.6764% won · 88 · most played

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

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Aphelios, over 221 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.

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	#5.03	-0.17	467
Aphelios	Kraken's Fury	#4.67	-0.53	342
Aphelios	Infinity Edge	#4.82	-0.38	250

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.

• Rapidfire 3 averages 4.28 here, against 4.92 at Rapidfire 2 (561 boards)

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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 8.81 (748)

Commerce CoreInvested+Invested++Prismatic TicketUpward MobilityCalculated LossCognitive OverloadEpic RolldownEpochEpoch+Trade SectorTrade Sector+

3 more

Crafted 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. #1AXM Stryggar#004Challenger · SEA · 1,501 LP · level 9 · 2026-10-10
2. #1Sacred Norris#HeheChallenger · EUNE · 2,045 LP · level 9 · 2026-10-08
3. #7Mimosa 7#JP1Challenger · JP · 1,623 LP · level 8 · out at 5-5 · 2026-10-02
4. #8NAVI Jip pok#naviChallenger · KR · 1,633 LP · level 9 · out at 4-2 · 2026-10-01

Traits

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

Apex Predator1Emerald Aspect1Greenfather1Old Growth1Riftbeast3next 5Inferno2next 3Juggernaut2next 4Rapidfire2next 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.

Trait	Placement at each tier
Inferno	24.6645635.46112
Juggernaut	25.0647345.07222
Rapidfire	24.9247634.2885

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+	154	#5.13	34.4%	8.4%
All ranks	221	#5.20	33.0%	6.8%

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.

5.518

4.899

4.9110

5.3911

5.4312

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
Riftbeast Elder Dragon & Draven	S	5	#4.18	101,630
Riftbeast Elder Dragon Vanguard	—	5	#2.90	426
Elderwood Aphelios	—	5	#6.57	99
Inferno Rapidfire	—	5	#6.61	74
Rapidfire Aphelios Vanguard Juggernaut	—	5	#4.59	68
Primal Aphelios & Nidalee	A	4	#4.33	149,120
Elderwood Draven & Maokai	A	4	#4.27	78,645
Rapidfire Aphelios & Brambleback	A	4	#4.40	20,896