Lunar Aphelios & Sett

Also called Aphelios Sett Fast 9 · Lunar Fast 9

Fast 9Carried by Aphelios & SettA Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.5 ranked games.

Difficulty Easy None of the difficulty signals we could measure apply (2 of 4 measured)

Updated 21 Oct 2026, 08:18 UTC · ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+ · Patch 18.5

Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 48 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.

Which version?

Eight comps play Lunar around Aphelios; the biggest four and this one are compared here. They share the two below; the units only one of them plays tell you which one you are on.

All of these play

Diana

Aphelios

Not gradedLunar Aphelios with Maokai

#5.04 avg39.9% top 42,217 gamesFast 9

Played on about 1 board in 769 this week; a grade needs 1 in 100.

Carried by Aphelios

Only this one plays

Maokai

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No tier yetLunar Aphelios

— avg— top 4206 gamesFast 9

Carried by Aphelios

Only this one plays

Shen

Ivern

or Lillia

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No tier yetLunar Aphelios with Lux

— avg— top 4196 gamesFast 8

Carried by Aphelios

Only this one plays

Varus

Kog'Maw

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No tier yetLunar Aphelios & Nidalee

— avg— top 4109 gamesFast 8

Carried by Aphelios & Nidalee

Only this one plays

Kayle

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No tier yetLunar Aphelios & Sett

— avg— top 448 gamesFast 9

Carried by Aphelios & Sett

Only this one plays

Sett

Gnar

or Krug

or Mama Beak

or Morgana

3 smaller versions

Lunar Aphelios with TaricNo tier yet105 games
Lunar Aphelios & LuxNo tier yet77 games
Lunar Aphelios & LilliaNo tier yet47 games

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

#4.32 with one other29% of games
#4.93 with two or more67% of games

Others on Aphelios or Sett in the lobby, over 184 games of this patch at all ranks.

Level plan

Stage 5 Lv 8.6 measured
Stage 6 Lv 9.0 measured

Carries

Aphelios 3★ on 0% of boards

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

Sett 3★ on 0% of boards

Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmog's Armor, Spirit Visage

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
Contested?: Others holding Aphelios / Sett: 1 other: #4.32 · 2+ others: #4.93
Pace: Level when its players go out — stage 5: 8.6 · stage 6: 9.0
Vs its level: Finishes at level 8.7 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.00 across every comp; this one averages 4.46, 0.46 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.

★★

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.

Alune★

Jeweled Gauntlet
Spear of Shojin
Rabadon's Deathcap

Gnar★

Sterak's Gage
Thief's Gloves

Taric★

Aphelios★★

Guinsoo's Rageblade
Infinity Edge
Kraken's Fury

carry

Sett★★

Gargoyle Stoneplate
Warmog's Armor
Spirit Visage

carry

Diana★★

Morganaflex

Krugflex

Mama Beakflex

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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 5 Level 9 measured

Its players average 8.6 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 5-6 on average, with 5 gold left.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Aphelios or Sett, over 184 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 it	Avg Place	Share of games
1 other player	#4.32	29%
2 or more	#4.93	67%

Questions

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

How do you play Lunar Aphelios & Sett in TFT Set 18?

Fast 9. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.0 on average.

What items does Aphelios need?

On its final board Aphelios holds Guinsoo's Rageblade, Infinity Edge and Kraken's Fury.

Is Lunar Aphelios & Sett good in patch 18.5?

Not graded yet: 73 games at all ranks in the last 7 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #4.66.

Is Lunar Aphelios & Sett contested?

Contest costs it little: with one other #4.32 (29% of games), with two or more #4.93 (67%), over 184 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.

Champion	Item	Avg Place	vs comp	Games
Aphelios	Guinsoo's Rageblade	#5.00	+0.34	67
Aphelios	Infinity Edge	#4.65	-0.01	43
Aphelios	Kraken's Fury	#4.47	-0.19	32

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.

#4.93

Lunar 3: averages 4.93 here, against 5.06 at Lunar 2 (133 boards)

Sun and Moon

Sun and Moon+

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 8.75 (182)

Commerce Core

Invested+

Invested++

Prismatic Ticket

Upward Mobility

Calculated Loss

Cognitive Overload

Epic Rolldown

Epoch

Epoch+

Trade Sector

Trade Sector+

3 more

Crafted Crafting

Patience Is A Virtue

Recombobulator

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.

Lunar3next 4

Brawler2next 4

Vanguard2next 4

Attuned1

Emerald Aspect1

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
Lunar	25.066334.9370

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+	48	#4.46	52.1%	16.7%
All ranks	73	#4.66	47.9%	12.3%

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.

4.5315

5.4716

3.6717

4.0018

5.7519

4.0020

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
Blossom Ahri & Alune	—	4	#3.96	1,312
Executioner Aphelios	—	4	#4.93	345
Lunar Aphelios with Taric	—	4	#3.65	147
Brawler Ahri & Sett with Alune	—	4	#3.84	129
Attuned Elder Dragon & Alune	—	4	#5.34	120
Elderwood Alune	—	4	#3.86	113
Elderwood Aphelios & Lillia	—	4	#2.25	71
Rapidfire Aphelios with Alune	—	4	#4.13	60