Riftbeast Mama Beak & Hecarim with Aphelios

Riftbeast shops at level 7ConsistentCarried by Mama Beak & Hecarim

Teamfight Tactics Set 18·Patch 18.5·Ranked games, Diamond+, last 5 days·Updated 26 Oct 2026, 07:18 UTC·Difficulty Medium

No tier yet Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 117 in the last 5 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.

S comps in Diamond+ now: Riftbeast Elder Dragon & Draven (same trait), Riftbeast Elder Dragon (same trait). Every grade: the tier list.

Final board

The board at level 7, where most of its games end, from its games at all ranks over the last 14 days.

★★

★★★

★★

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.

Brambleback★

Rapidfire Emblem
Edge of Night
Quicksilver

Zyra★

Spear of Shojin
Red Buff

Hecarim★★

Gargoyle Stoneplate
Warmog's Armor
Spirit Visage

carry

Krug★★

Warmog's Armor
Gargoyle Stoneplate

Mama Beak★★★

Guinsoo's Rageblade
Hextech Gunblade
Titan's Resolve

carry

Alistar★★

Xayah★★

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How to play this

When: You hold Needlessly Large Rod and Recurve Bow.
Items: Slam Titan's Resolve first (Recurve Bow + Chain Vest): of Mama Beak's most played build, the item its boards placed best with, #5.06 over 65 boards at all ranks. our rule Hold the rest:Needlessly Large Rod ×2Recurve BowB.F. Sword
Level: It shops at level 7: its Riftbeasts reach 3 stars partly through Riftbeast’s free shops. Finishes at level 7.6 on average. Boards at its levels average 5.18 across every comp; this one averages 5.29, 0.11 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
Carries: Mama Beak 3★ on 63% of boards
Guinsoo's Rageblade, Hextech Gunblade, Titan's Resolve
#5.20 over 50 games at all ranks
Hecarim 3★ on 31% of boards
Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmog's Armor, Spirit Visage

Stage by stage

Stages 2 and 3 are our plan; 4 to 6 are the level its players were measured at.

Stage 5 Level 7 measured

Its players average 7.5 when they go out in stage 5.

Stage 6 Level 8 measured

Its players average 8.3 when they go out in stage 6.

Its games end around round 5-5 on average, with 5 gold left.

Which version?

Three comps play Riftbeast around Mama Beak. They share the three below; the units only one of them plays tell you which one you are on.

Every version plays

Krug

Mama Beak

Zyra

Not gradedRiftbeast Mama Beak & Hecarim

#3.51 avg71.5% top 42,111 gamesRiftbeast shops at level 7

Played on about 1 board in 556 in the last 5 days; a grade needs 1 in 100.

Carried by Mama Beak & Hecarim

Only this one plays

Sentinel

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No tier yetRiftbeast Mama Beak & Hecarim with Aphelios

— avg— top 4117 gamesRiftbeast shops at level 7

Carried by Mama Beak & Hecarim

Only this one plays

Brambleback

No tier yetRiftbeast Mama Beak & Zyra

— avg— top 489 gamesRiftbeast shops at level 7

Carried by Mama Beak

Only this one plays

Yorick

Scuttlecrab

Ahri

Sett

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Ranked games, last 5 days, Diamond+. A dashed portrait is a flex slot: many of its games play another unit there.

No tier yet fewer than 400 games in 5 days Not graded played too rarely to grade

Item builds, measuredthe carries’ three-item builds, with average place and games

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

Champion	Build	Avg Place	Games
Mama Beak	Guinsoo's RagebladeHextech GunbladeTitan's Resolve	#5.20	50

Components to hold Needlessly Large Rod ×2, Recurve Bow ×2, B.F. Sword, Chain Vest

Augments that fitby trait and by our rule; no augment has a number of its own

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.

#4.56

Rapidfire 3: averages 4.56 here, against 5.99 at Rapidfire 2 (134 boards)

U.R.F

Reroll and economy

By ruleSuits this comp: it 3-stars a 3-cost in 68% of its boards (173)

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

AP carry

By ruleSuits this carry: Mama Beak is built for ability power here (147 boards)

Baron's Lair

Coronation

Deadlier Caps

Hold the Line

Soul Awakening

Dark Ritual

Early Learnings

Embiggen

NO SCOUT NO PIVOT

Seraphim's Staff

Tons of Stats!

Stand United

Works against it: Wrong damage type (3)

By ruleWrong damage type: Mama Beak is built for ability power here (147 boards)

Deadlier Blades

Cybernetic Implants

Focused Fire

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.

Questionswhat people search for about this comp, answered from this page

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

How do you play Riftbeast Mama Beak & Hecarim with Aphelios in TFT Set 18?

Riftbeast shops at level 7. Its Riftbeasts reach 3 stars partly through Riftbeast’s free shops, one every three combats, not only through rolls.

What items does Mama Beak need?

Its most played build this patch is Guinsoo's Rageblade, Hextech Gunblade and Titan's Resolve: #5.20 over 50 games.

Is Riftbeast Mama Beak & Hecarim with Aphelios good in patch 18.5?

Not graded yet: 125 games at all ranks in the last 5 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #5.26.

More about this compladder boards, traits, by bracket, trend, also played

Traits

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

Elderwood3next 5

Riftbeast3next 5

Brawler2next 4

Rapidfire2next 3

Summoner2next 3

Thornmaiden1

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
Rapidfire	25.997134.5663

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+	117	#5.29	30.8%	3.4%
All ranks	125	#5.26	32.0%	3.2%

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.

5.6523

5.3624

5.0825

5.0026

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
Elderwood Mama Beak & Hecarim	—	6	#5.34	3,261
Elderwood Mama Beak & Hecarim (ku4icy)	—	6	#4.50	2,934
Riftbeast Mama Beak & Hecarim	—	5	#3.53	2,267
Elderwood Ezreal & Soraka with Gnar	—	4	#4.51	57