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Ravager Aphelios & Nidalee

Also called Aphelios Nidalee Fast 8 · Ravager Fast 8

Fast 8ConsistentCarried by Aphelios & Nidalee

Teamfight Tactics Set 18·Patch 18.5·Ranked games, Diamond+, last 7 days·Updated 29 Oct 2026, 17:18 UTC·Difficulty Easy

No tier yet Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 152 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.

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

Final board

The board at level 9, where most of its games end, from its games at all ranks over the last 14 days. Press a level to see the board on the way.

The Night Arena: an obsidian TFT board lit in gold
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Positions are our rule by attack range, not measured. Riot's match data has no positions. Dashed levels are planned.

4Amumu★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Spirit Visage
  • Warmog's Armor
4Aphelios★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Kraken's Fury
  • Infinity Edge
carry
4Brambleback★★
  • Edge of Night
  • Rapidfire Emblem
  • Sterak's Gage
4Nidalee★★
  • Infinity Edge
  • Sterak's Gage
  • Spear of Shojin
carry
3Diana★★
2Scuttlecrab★★
1Varus★★
4Sentinelflex
3Kog'Mawflex

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Aphelios

How to play this

When
  • #4.57 with one other45% of games
  • #4.53 with two or more32% of games
Others on Aphelios or Nidalee in the lobby, over 196 games of this patch at all ranks.
Level
Level to 8 and roll there. Its games also end at level 10 (4%). 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 Finishes at level 8.5 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.29 across every comp; this one averages 4.39, 0.10 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
Carries

Aphelios 3★ on 0% of boards

Guinsoo's RagebladeKraken's FuryInfinity Edge Guinsoo's Rageblade, Kraken's Fury, Infinity Edge

Nidalee 3★ on 1% of boards

Infinity EdgeSterak's GageSpear of Shojin Infinity Edge, Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin

Stage by stage

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

Stage 2 Level 4 plan

Play Rakan, Varus, Scuttlecrab and Diana.

Aphelios' items go on Diana until Aphelios comes in at level 7.

Nidalee's items go on Varus until Nidalee comes in at level 8.

Stage 3 Level 6 plan

Add Murkwolf and Mama Beak.

Stage 5 Level 8 measured

Its players average 8.2 when they go out in stage 5.

Add Amumu, Aphelios, Brambleback and Nidalee; sell Rakan, Murkwolf, Scuttlecrab and Mama Beak.

44% of its games end at level 8.

Stage 6 Level 9 measured

Its players average 8.8 when they go out in stage 6.

Add Sentinel, Kog'Maw and Scuttlecrab.

50% of its games end at level 9.

Its games end around round 5-7 on average, with 7 gold left.

Board at every levelthe board level by level, with its traits and the options its games play

The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 8 up it is measured over 406 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

72%844%950%104%
Lv 4planRakanVarusScuttlecrabDiana22Nidalee’s items on VarusAphelios’s items on Diana
Lv 5planRakanVarusMurkwolfScuttlecrabDianaAddedMurkwolf222Nidalee’s items on VarusAphelios’s items on Murkwolf
Lv 6planRakanVarusMurkwolfScuttlecrabDianaMama BeakAddedMama Beak32222Nidalee’s items on VarusAphelios’s items on Mama Beak
Lv 7planVarusMurkwolfScuttlecrabDianaApheliosMama BeakRakanAddedAphelios332222Nidalee’s items on Varus
Lv 844%AmumuApheliosBramblebackNidaleeDianaVarusScuttlecrabMurkwolfAddedAmumuBramblebackNidaleeSoldMama BeakRakan332222
Lv 950%AmumuApheliosBramblebackNidaleeSentinelDianaKog'MawScuttlecrabVarusAddedSentinelKog'MawSoldMurkwolf1322222222

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.

Variationswhat close versions add or leave out, and how they placed

Other boards this comp ends on, over the last 14 days. Each row is a version’s usual final board and what it plays instead of this comp’s own board at that level.

Lv 8AmumuApheliosBramblebackNidaleeDianaViCamilleVarus5.30avg place79 gamesPlaysViCamilleInstead ofScuttlecrabMurkwolf
Lv 8AmumuApheliosBramblebackMalphiteDianaMurkwolfScuttlecrabWarwick4.57avg place63 gamesPlaysMalphiteWarwickInstead ofNidaleeVarus
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.

Works against it: Not a reroll comp (15)

By ruleNot a reroll comp: it 3-stars a unit in under 10% of boards, averaging level 8.56 (406)

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

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 Ravager Aphelios & Nidalee in TFT Set 18?

Fast 8. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.8 on average. Its games end most often at level 9 (50%).

What items does Aphelios need?

On its final board Aphelios holds Guinsoo's Rageblade, Kraken's Fury and Infinity Edge.

Is Ravager Aphelios & Nidalee good in patch 18.5?

Not graded yet: 162 games at all ranks in the last 7 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #4.47.

Is Ravager Aphelios & Nidalee contested?

Contest costs it little: with one other #4.57 (45% of games), with two or more #4.53 (32%), over 196 games of this patch at all ranks.

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

Traits

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

Caustic1Riftbeast3next 5Adaptor2next 3Inferno2next 3Invoker2next 3Juggernaut2next 4Lunar2next 3Rapidfire2next 3Ravager2next 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
Ravager23.9724744.33126

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+152#4.3856.6%6.6%
All ranks162#4.4753.7%6.2%

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.