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Primal Aphelios & Nidalee Inferno

Fast 8Carried by Aphelios & Nidalee

Updated 30 Sep 2026, 06:18 UTC · Patch 18.3

—Tier
#5.05Avg Place
39.7%Top 4 %
6.6%Win %
0.0%Play Rate
458Games
Aphelios

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.8 on average.
Play it when
you hold B.F. Sword and Recurve Bow, and nobody else is on Aphelios or Nidalee (it placed #4.57 then, #4.99 against two or more)
Roll
Level 8 around 4-2: about 22 rolls (44 gold) to 2-star Aphelios; about 33 if three copies of each are on other boards. model
Build
Aphelios Aphelios Guinsoo's RagebladeInfinity EdgeKraken's Fury Guinsoo's Rageblade, Infinity Edge, Kraken's Fury · 38 games · #4.29
Components
B.F. SwordB.F. Sword ×4 · Recurve BowRecurve Bow ×2 · Sparring GlovesSparring Gloves ×2 · Giant's BeltGiant's Belt · Needlessly Large RodNeedlessly Large Rod · Negatron CloakNegatron Cloak · +1 more
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.0 · stage 5: 8.3 · stage 6: 8.8
Games end
Lv 8 53% · Lv 9 42% · Lv 10 4%

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Final board

The whole board at level 8, 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. Under a unit, or: the champions its boards play in that slot instead, measured on its level-8 boards this patch.

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; the gold one adds the champion that placed best at that level.

5Lux★
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Jeweled Gauntlet
or
  • Rek'Sai
4Amumu★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
or
  • Kog'Maw
4Aphelios★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Kraken's Fury
  • Infinity Edge
carry
4Malphite★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
  • Spirit Visage
4Nidalee★★
  • Infinity Edge
  • Sterak's Gage
  • Spear of Shojin
carry
3Diana★★
or
  • Sivir
3Vi★★
1Varus★★
or
  • Maokai

Paste it into the game’s Team Planner to have these champions marked in your shop.

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 1,646 games; below that it is planned.

853%942%104%
Lv 4planRakanVarusXayahVi222Aphelios’s items on XayahNidalee’s items on Varus
Lv 5planAkaliRakanVarusXayahViAddedAkali2222Aphelios’s items on XayahNidalee’s items on Varus
Lv 6planVarusDianaViXayahRakanAkaliAddedDiana222222Aphelios’s items on XayahNidalee’s items on Varus
Lv 7realViDianaApheliosAmumuVarusNidaleeKog'MawAddedApheliosAmumuNidaleeKog'MawSoldXayahRakanAkali1222222
Lv 853%AmumuApheliosMalphiteNidaleeDianaViVarusLuxAddedMalphiteLuxSoldKog'Maw1122222
Lv 942%LuxAmumuApheliosMalphiteNidaleeDianaViVarusTaricAddedTaric111222222

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

How these rows are made

Level 8 and up are the boards this comp’s games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days. 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. Hover a trait badge for what it does. 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. Under a measured level, its options: what its games put in the slots past that level’s core this patch, best placed first, with average place, win rate and games beside the level’s own. All of them went out at that level, so none is flattered by having got further. The board draws the first, in a gold ring; the most played is named among them. The row marked best adds the champion that placed best at the level above.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Aphelios or Nidalee, over 694 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#4.5715%
1 other player#4.9538%
2 or more#4.9947%

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#4.85-0.06941
ApheliosKraken's Fury#4.42-0.49583
ApheliosInfinity Edge#4.66-0.25470

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 RagebladeInfinity EdgeInfinity EdgeKraken's FuryKraken's Fury#4.2938
ApheliosDeathbladeDeathbladeGuinsoo's RagebladeGuinsoo's RagebladeKraken's FuryKraken's Fury#4.6936
ApheliosGuinsoo's RagebladeGuinsoo's RagebladeKraken's FuryKraken's FuryLast WhisperLast Whisper#4.9020
NidaleeInfinity EdgeInfinity EdgeSpear of ShojinSpear of ShojinSterak's GageSterak's Gage#4.5072

Components to hold B.F. Sword ×4, Recurve Bow ×2, Sparring Gloves ×2, Giant's Belt, Needlessly Large Rod, Negatron Cloak, Tear of the Goddess

Variations

Other boards this comp ends on. Each row is a version’s usual final board and what it plays instead of this comp’s own board at that level; all of them count in the numbers above.

Lv 8LuxMaokaiAmumuMalphiteNidaleeKrugViRek'Sai5.06avg place110 gamesPlaysMaokaiKrugRek'SaiInstead ofApheliosDianaVarus
Lv 8MaokaiAmumuApheliosMalphiteNidaleeSivirViScuttlecrab5.71avg place85 gamesPlaysMaokaiSivirScuttlecrabInstead ofDianaVarusLux
Lv 8KennenLuxAmumuApheliosMalphiteNidaleeDianaVarus4.67avg place63 gamesPlaysKennenInstead ofVi
Lv 9AluneGnarMaokaiTaricAmumuApheliosMalphiteViScuttlecrab6.31avg place52 gamesPlaysGnarMaokaiScuttlecrabAluneInstead ofLuxNidaleeDianaVarus
Lv 8LuxAmumuApheliosEzrealMalphiteViAkaliVarus5.66avg place44 gamesPlaysEzrealAkaliInstead ofNidaleeDiana

Traits

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

Inferno2next 3Juggernaut2next 4Lunar2next 3Primal2next 4Rapidfire2next 3Avatar1Monolith1Adaptor1next 2Blackthorn1next 2Ravager1next 2Vanguard1next 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
Blackthorn25.1649944.7497
Inferno24.9571534.6725454.16223
Juggernaut24.831,22344.76219
Lunar24.7679334.469944.2016754.5070
Primal24.871,04244.44358
Rapidfire24.661,06134.77132

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+458#5.0539.7%6.6%
All ranks694#4.9142.5%7.6%

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.

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.

  • Lunar 4 averages 4.20 here, against 4.76 at Lunar 2 (960 boards)

    Sun and MoonSun and Moon+
  • Primal 4 averages 4.44 here, against 4.87 at Primal 2 (1400 boards)

    Beast WithinBeast Within+
  • Blackthorn 4 averages 4.74 here, against 5.16 at Blackthorn 2 (596 boards)

    Item Extraction
  • Rapidfire 2 averages 4.66 here, against 4.77 at Rapidfire 3 (1193 boards)

    U.R.F
Works against it: Not a reroll comp (14)

By ruleNot a reroll comp it 3-stars a unit in under 10% of boards, averaging level 8.49 (1646)

Commerce CoreInvested+Invested++Prismatic TicketUpward MobilityCognitive OverloadEpic RolldownEpochEpoch+Trade SectorTrade Sector+Crafted Crafting
2 morePatience 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.