Rapidfire Aphelios Inferno Vanguard

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.7 on average.

Play it when

you hold Recurve Bow and B.F. Sword, and nobody else is on Aphelios (it placed #5.36 then, #5.78 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 Guinsoo's Rageblade, Infinity Edge, Kraken's Fury · 41 games · #4.98

Components

Recurve Bow ×2 · B.F. Sword · Needlessly Large Rod · Negatron Cloak · Sparring Gloves

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.8 · stage 5: 8.2 · stage 6: 8.7

Games end

Lv 7 5% · Lv 8 58% · Lv 9 31%

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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.

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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.

4Aphelios★★

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

carry

4Sentinel★★

• Protector's Vow
• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor

3Diana★★

2Shen★★

or

• Elder Dragon

1Varus★★

4Bramblebackflex

or

• Nidalee

4Lilliaflex

or

• Amumu

3Kog'Mawflex

or

• Mama Beak
• Elise
• Camille

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How it’s played

The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 7 up it is measured over 1,587 games; below that it is planned.

Lv 4plan32Aphelios’s items on Varus

Lv 5planAdded322Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 6realAddedSold132222

Lv 75%Added133222

Lv 858%AddedSold12222222

Lv 931%+1 open12222222

Lv 10bestAdded132222222The 10th championall: #1.95 · 36% won · 1,955 gamesKrug#1.8140% won · 275Taric#1.7935% won · 89Cinderling#1.8337% won · 86Nidalee#1.9536% won · 1.9k · most played

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

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Aphelios, over 672 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.

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.

Champion	Item	Avg Place	vs comp	Games
Aphelios	Guinsoo's Rageblade	#5.51	-0.03	876
Aphelios	Kraken's Fury	#5.15	-0.39	660
Aphelios	Infinity Edge	#5.24	-0.29	582

Full builds

The carries’ most played three-item builds this patch, with the placement of the games they were built in.

Champion	Build	Avg Place	Games
Aphelios	Guinsoo's RagebladeInfinity EdgeKraken's Fury	#4.98	41
Aphelios	DeathbladeGuinsoo's RagebladeKraken's Fury	#5.35	23
Aphelios	DeathbladeGuinsoo's RagebladeInfinity Edge	#5.45	20

Components to hold Recurve Bow ×2, B.F. Sword, Needlessly Large Rod, Negatron Cloak, Sparring Gloves

At the top of the ladder

The newest boards of this comp from the players on our leaderboard, with where they placed. A name opens that player’s games, board and items included.

1. #2vclf#kayleChallenger · NA · 1,384 LP · level 8 · out at 5-7 · 2026-09-23
2. #2TTV KatsutaxD#TFTChallenger · EUW · 1,431 LP · level 9 · out at 6-3 · 2026-09-21
3. #1KAITO#617Challenger · JP · 1,738 LP · level 9 · 2026-09-17

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 8+1 open5.32avg place184 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 8+1 open6.05avg place154 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 76.64avg place124 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 8+1 open6.03avg place70 gamesPlaysInstead of

Traits

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

Inferno2next 3Lunar2next 3Rapidfire2next 3Vanguard2next 4Defender1next 2Invoker1next 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.

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.

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.

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.