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Riftbeast Aphelios

Fast 8Carried by Aphelios

Updated 01 Oct 2026, 06:18 UTC · Patch 18.3

—Tier
—Avg Place
—Top 4 %
—Win %
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—Games
Aphelios

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.6 on average.
Play it when
you hold Recurve Bow and B.F. Sword
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 · 31 games · #4.10
Components
Recurve BowRecurve Bow ×2 · B.F. SwordB.F. Sword · Needlessly Large RodNeedlessly Large Rod · Negatron CloakNegatron Cloak · Sparring GlovesSparring Gloves
Contested?
Others holding Aphelios: nobody else: #4.99 · 1 other: #4.87 · 2+ others: #4.63
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 6.4 · stage 5: 7.7 · stage 6: 8.6
Games end
Lv 6 11% · Lv 8 40% · Lv 9 28%

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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. A gold slot is the combination that placed best there, from the same games; the one they played most is under it. 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.

4Aphelios★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Infinity Edge
  • Kraken's Fury
carry
4Sentinel★★
  • Protector's Vow
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
3Krug★★
3Mama Beak★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Infinity Edge
  • Kraken's Fury
1Xayah★★
4Zyrabest
3Hecarimflex
2Alistarbest
or
  • Gnar

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 5 up it is measured over 1,200 games; below that it is planned.

57%611%710%840%928%104%
Lv 4planRakanXayahYorickMama Beak2222Aphelios’s items on Xayah
Lv 57%Mama BeakKrugRakanXayahYorickAddedKrug2222
Lv 611%Mama BeakKrugRakanXayahYorickSentinelAddedSentinel322222
Lv 710%SentinelMama BeakHecarimKrugXayahAlistarYorickAddedHecarimAlistarSoldRakan332222
Lv 840%ApheliosSentinelMama BeakHecarimKrugXayahAlistarZyraAddedApheliosZyraSoldYorick1333222Optionsall: #4.49 · 5% won · 140 gamesAlistar + Zyra#4.0210% won · 41Gnar + Zyra#4.386% won · 47
Lv 928%GnarApheliosSentinelMama BeakHecarimKrugXayahZyraIvernAddedGnarIvernSoldAlistar11333222

3★ targets Mama Beak21%

How these rows are made

Level 5 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. 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, over 632 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#4.9927%
1 other player#4.8741%
2 or more#4.6332%

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#4.45-0.41325
ApheliosInfinity Edge#4.19-0.67289
ApheliosKraken's Fury#4.37-0.49252

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#4.1031

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. #5Nik#0283Challenger · NA · 1,417 LP · level 9 · out at 6-2 · 2026-09-23
  2. #5Snoodyboo#8907Challenger · EUW · 1,595 LP · level 9 · out at 6-1 · 2026-09-20

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 8ApheliosSentinelDianaHecarimKrugMama BeakAlistarXayah5.78avg place94 gamesPlaysDianaInstead ofZyra
Lv 9GnarIvernLuxApheliosSentinelDianaHecarimKrugMama Beak4.44avg place71 gamesPlaysLuxDianaInstead ofXayahZyra
Lv 8GnarAmumuSentinelHecarimKrugMama BeakVarusXayah5.85avg place67 gamesPlaysGnarAmumuVarusInstead ofApheliosZyraAlistar

Traits

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

Rapidfire3next 4Riftbeast3next 5Brawler1next 2Elderwood1next 3Fae1next 2Invoker1next 2Lunar1next 2Summoner1next 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
Rapidfire25.4748234.3641044.3614053.6179
Vanguard24.6981843.88105

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+304#4.8143.1%8.9%
All ranks505#4.8643.8%8.5%

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.

  • Rapidfire 5 averages 3.61 here, against 5.47 at Rapidfire 2 (561 boards)

    U.R.F

By ruleSuits this carry Aphelios is built for attack damage here (631 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier BladesHold the LineSoul AwakeningCybernetic ImplantsEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTTons of Stats!Focused FireStand United
Works against it: Wrong damage type (3)

By ruleWrong damage type Aphelios is built for attack damage here (631 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.