TFT CODEX

Lunar Aphelios

Fast 9Carried by Aphelios

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

—Tier
#5.35Avg Place
34.3%Top 4 %
9.6%Win %
0.2%Play Rate
3,399Games

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.

Aphelios

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.2 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
Build
Aphelios Aphelios Guinsoo's RagebladeKraken's FuryLast Whisper Guinsoo's Rageblade, Kraken's Fury, Last Whisper · 320 games · #5.41
Components
Recurve BowRecurve Bow ×2 · Recurve BowRecurve Bow · Needlessly Large RodNeedlessly Large Rod · Negatron CloakNegatron Cloak · Sparring GlovesSparring Gloves
Contested?
Others holding Aphelios: nobody else: #5.20 · 1 other: #5.51 · 2+ others: #5.63
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.9 · stage 5: 8.4 · stage 6: 9.2
Games end
Lv 8 28% · Lv 9 37% · Lv 10 18%

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.

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.

4Aphelios★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Kraken's Fury
  • Infinity Edge
carry
3Diana★★
3Fiddlesticks★★
  • Warmogs Armor
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
1Rakan★★
5Kennenflex
4Amumuflex
3Kha'Zixflex
1Ornnflex
1Xayahflex

Also in the flex slots Alune, Hecarim, LeBlanc, Lux

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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 (19,432 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. 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.

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Lv 4planOrnnRakanXayahHecarimElderwood 3Fae 2Vanguard 2Aphelios’s items on Xayah
Lv 5realOrnnXayahLeBlancHecarimRakan
Lv 6realOrnnXayahHecarimLeBlancRakanKayle
Lv 715%DianaFiddlesticksHecarimKha'ZixLeBlancOrnnAphelios− Xayah, Rakan, Kayle
Lv 828%ApheliosDianaFiddlesticksRakanXayahOrnnAmumuKha'Zix− Hecarim, LeBlanc
Lv 937%AmumuApheliosDianaFiddlesticksRakanXayahOrnnKha'ZixKennen
Lv 1018%KennenAmumuApheliosDianaFiddlesticksKha'ZixOrnnRakanXayahLux

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

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.9 · stage 5: 8.4 · stage 6: 9.2.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Aphelios, over 6,169 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#5.2029%
1 other player#5.5143%
2 or more#5.6327%

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#5.22-0.227,953
ApheliosKraken's Fury#5.05-0.405,612
ApheliosInfinity Edge#5.06-0.383,954

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 RagebladeKraken's FuryKraken's FuryLast WhisperLast Whisper#5.41320
ApheliosGuinsoo's RagebladeGuinsoo's RagebladeInfinity EdgeInfinity EdgeKraken's FuryKraken's Fury#5.20239
ApheliosDeathbladeDeathbladeGuinsoo's RagebladeGuinsoo's RagebladeKraken's FuryKraken's Fury#5.13186

Components to hold Recurve Bow ×2, Recurve Bow, Needlessly Large Rod, Negatron Cloak, Sparring Gloves

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
HecarimAmumu, Kennen, Rakan6.511,543
LuxAmumu, Kennen5.76980
Gnar, LuxLeBlanc2.86897
AluneAmumu, Aphelios, Kennen6.05643
Alune, Ashe, LuxAphelios, LeBlanc, Ornn, Xayah3.34450

…and 119 smaller versions, 12,065 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.

Lunar2next 3Vanguard2next 4Flora Fatalis1next 2Defender1next 2Fae1next 2Juggernaut1next 2Rapidfire1next 2Ravager1next 2Spellweaver1next 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
Blossom34.7558654.3675
Defender25.3712,41044.52232
Elderwood35.5210,68255.221,19174.52206
Executioner24.564,33533.391,13243.12397
Fae25.359,58744.271,470
Flora Fatalis15.5111,46424.521,803
Hunter24.5770534.0062
Inferno24.655,94234.811,54154.02250
Invoker25.1692835.2199
Juggernaut24.9810,03544.481,01363.72312
Lunar25.4010,26234.462,66644.1698353.74725
Primal24.702,09844.19163
Rapidfire25.319,78334.522,40244.2148054.16238
Ravager25.119,85444.17143
Rival15.3410,3094.60225
Spellweaver25.2110,65944.251,08363.4390
Summoner25.1980134.4981
Vanguard25.3815,27044.581,15864.1584

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+3,399#5.3534.3%9.6%
All ranks6,181#5.4432.4%8.9%

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
Vanguard Kha'Zix & Aphelios—4#5.45839
Fae Aphelios Blackthorn—4#6.42285
Lunar Aphelios Juggernaut—4#4.6552

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.