TFT CODEX

Lunar Aphelios Vanguard

Fast 9Carried by Aphelios

Updated 28 Sep 2026, 02:18 UTC · Patch 18.3

—Tier
#4.30Avg Place
54.9%Top 4 %
14.3%Win %
0.0%Play Rate
552Games

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.

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.

5Kennen★
  • Edge of Night
  • Thief's Gloves
5Maokai★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
  • Spirit Visage
5Taric★
4Amumu★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
  • Spirit Visage
4Aphelios★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Kraken's Fury
  • Infinity Edge
carry
4Sentinel★★
  • Protector's Vow
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
3Diana★★
5Luxflex
3Mama Beakflex

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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 8 and up are measured: the boards its games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days (3,117 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.

820%967%1012%
Lv 4planRakanXayahYorickMama BeakFae 2Juggernaut 2Rapidfire 2Summoner 2Aphelios’s items on Xayah
Lv 5planRakanVarusXayahYorickMama BeakRapidfire 3Fae 2Juggernaut 2Summoner 2Aphelios’s items on Xayah
Lv 6planRakanVarusXayahYorickDianaMama BeakRapidfire 3Fae 2Juggernaut 2Summoner 2Vanguard 2Aphelios’s items on Xayah
Lv 7planDianaMama BeakApheliosRakanXayahYorickVarusRapidfire 4Fae 2Juggernaut 2Lunar 2Summoner 2
Lv 820%KennenMaokaiTaricAmumuApheliosSentinelMama BeakDiana− Rakan, Xayah, Yorick, Varus
Lv 967%KennenMaokaiTaricAmumuApheliosSentinelDianaMama BeakLux
Lv 1012%KennenLuxMaokaiTaricAmumuApheliosSentinelMama BeakDianaAlune

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

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
Elder Dragon, IvernKennen, Lux, Sentinel4.81286
IvernLux, Mama Beak, Taric5.54112
Ornn, XayahMama Beak, Sentinel4.38104
Hecarim, MorganaDiana, Kennen, Lux6.1887
Azir, MalphiteAmumu, Mama Beak, Sentinel4.7076

…and 13 smaller versions, 367 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.

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#4.35-0.041,741
ApheliosKraken's Fury#4.01-0.371,249
ApheliosInfinity Edge#4.21-0.181,208

Traits

Active on the core board, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

Vanguard3next 4Inferno2next 3Juggernaut2next 4Lunar2next 3Emerald Aspect1Old Growth1Executioner1next 2Invoker1next 2Rapidfire1next 2Ravager1next 2Riftbeast1next 3

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
Executioner23.9540633.7565
Inferno24.271,44634.1747553.21280
Juggernaut24.282,63943.51117
Lunar24.311,65933.9934843.9940253.67269
Rapidfire24.181,71933.8536643.3911252.5461
Vanguard24.352,34244.01525

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+552#4.3054.9%14.3%
All ranks842#4.3852.8%13.4%

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.

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.