TFT CODEX

Lunar Aphelios Defender

Fast 9Carried by ApheliosA Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.4b ranked games.

Updated 17 Oct 2026, 08:18 UTC · ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+ · Patch 18.4b

Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 43 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.

Aphelios

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.0 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
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 5: 8.5 · stage 6: 9.0
Vs its level
Finishes at level 8.8 on average. Boards at its levels average 3.92 across every comp; this one averages 4.56, 0.64 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.

The Night Arena: an obsidian TFT board lit in gold
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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.

5Alune★
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Jeweled Gauntlet
4Aphelios★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Infinity Edge
  • Kraken's Fury
carry
4Lillia★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
  • Protector's Vow
3Diana★★
3Fiddlesticks★★
2Shen★★
1Varus★★
5Luxflex
4Sentinelflex

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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
ApheliosGuinsoo's Rageblade#4.46-0.2495
ApheliosInfinity Edge#4.27-0.4363
ApheliosKraken's Fury#4.55-0.1544

Augments

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 core board, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

Defender3next 4Lunar3next 4Inferno2next 3Rapidfire2next 3Spellweaver2next 4Attuned1Flora Fatalis1next 2

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+43#4.5646.5%11.6%
All ranks70#4.7042.9%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
Rapidfire Aphelios—5#4.72458
Defender Alune—5#4.84133
Rapidfire Aphelios Vanguard—5#5.1058
Solar Kayle LunarA4#4.3862,582
Fae Aphelios Blackthorn—4#5.461,504
Inferno Aphelios—4#5.191,282
Vanguard Kha'Zix—4#4.68566
Fae Aphelios & Brambleback—4#4.87372