TFT CODEX

Rapidfire Aphelios Vanguard Juggernaut

Fast 8ConsistentCarried by ApheliosA Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.4b ranked games.

Updated 12 Oct 2026, 20:18 UTC · Patch 18.4b

—Tier
—Avg Place
—Top 4 %
—Win %
0.0%Play Rate
—Games
Aphelios

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.9 on average.
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
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 5: 8.4 · stage 6: 8.9
Games end
Lv 8 38% · Lv 9 55% · Lv 10 7%
Vs its level
Finishes at level 8.7 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.04 across every comp; this one averages 4.65, 0.61 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.

Open in Builder

Final board

The whole board at level 9, where most of its games end. 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. Dashed level buttons are planned, the rest measured; the gold one adds the champion that placed best there.

5Ivern★
5Taric★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
4Amumu★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
  • Spirit Visage
4Aphelios★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Kraken's Fury
  • Infinity Edge
carry
3Diana★★
3Vi★★
1Varus★★
4Nidaleeflex
3Mama Beakflex

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 238 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

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Lv 4planVarusXayahKayleMama Beak4Aphelios’s items on Xayah
Lv 5planRakanVarusXayahKayleMama BeakAddedRakan42Aphelios’s items on Xayah
Lv 6planRakanVarusXayahMama BeakViKayleAddedVi422Aphelios’s items on Xayah
Lv 7planVarusDianaViApheliosRakanXayahMama BeakAddedDianaApheliosSoldKayle42222
Lv 838%IvernTaricAmumuApheliosNidaleeDianaViVarusAddedIvernTaricAmumuNidaleeSoldRakanXayahMama Beak11222222
Lv 955%IvernTaricAmumuApheliosMama BeakDianaViVarusNidaleeAddedMama Beak11322222

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. 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. Under a measured level, its options: what its games put in the slots past that level’s core, 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.

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#4.23-0.36118
ApheliosKraken's Fury#3.98-0.61116
ApheliosInfinity Edge#4.23-0.3693

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.

By ruleSuits this carry Aphelios is built for attack damage here (226 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier BladesHold the LineSoul AwakeningCybernetic ImplantsDouble TroubleEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTTons of Stats!Focused Fire
1 moreStand United
Works against it: Not a reroll comp (15), Wrong damage type (3)

By ruleNot a reroll comp it 3-stars a unit in under 10% of boards, averaging level 8.68 (238)

Commerce CoreInvested+Invested++Prismatic TicketUpward MobilityCalculated LossCognitive OverloadEpic RolldownEpochEpoch+Trade SectorTrade Sector+
3 moreCrafted CraftingPatience Is A VirtueRecombobulator

By ruleWrong damage type Aphelios is built for attack damage here (226 boards)

Deadlier CapsDark RitualSeraphim's Staff

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

At the top of the ladder

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

  1. #5Solo Chunji#chunChallenger · VN · 1,590 LP · level 9 · out at 5-5 · 2026-10-02

Traits

Active on the final board above, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

Emerald Aspect1Greenfather1Rapidfire3next 4Inferno2next 3Juggernaut2next 4Lunar2next 3Primal2next 4Vanguard2next 4

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
Inferno24.5515533.6260

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+46#4.6550.0%4.3%
All ranks68#4.5947.1%5.9%

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.