Riftbeast Aphelios & Brambleback Rapidfire
Fast 8ConsistentCarried by Aphelios & Brambleback
Updated 30 Sep 2026, 06:18 UTC · Patch 18.3
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 or Brambleback (it placed #4.76 then, #5.27 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 · 20 games · #4.80- Components
Recurve Bow ×2 · 
B.F. Sword · 
Needlessly Large Rod · 
Negatron Cloak · 
Sparring Gloves- Pace
- Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.9 · stage 5: 8.2 · stage 6: 8.7
- Games end
- Lv 7 4% · Lv 8 58% · Lv 9 34%
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.
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.
Gnar★- Thief's Gloves
- Sterak's Gage
Aphelios★★- Guinsoo's Rageblade
- Infinity Edge
- Kraken's Fury
Brambleback★★- Edge of Night
- Sterak's Gage
- Rapidfire Emblem
Sentinel★★- Protector's Vow
- Gargoyle Stoneplate
- Spirit Visage
Diana★★Krug★★Mama Beak★★SettflexPaste 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 1,093 games; below that it is planned.
3
2Aphelios’s items on MurkwolfBrambleback’s items on Diana
Added42Aphelios’s items on MurkwolfBrambleback’s items on Diana
Added42
2Aphelios’s items on MurkwolfBrambleback’s items on HecarimAddedSold43
2
22AddedSold4
32222
AddedSold
1
1342222Added11343222The 10th championall: #2.33 · 32% won · 224 gamesHecarim#2.0146% won · 67
Varus#2.0332% won · 63
Taric#2.1040% won · 90Not 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, 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. Rows marked real are the boards of the games that went out at that level holding four or more of this comp’s units — real boards on the way to it, not its own games. 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 or Brambleback, over 450 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 it | Avg Place | Share of games |
|---|---|---|
| Nobody else | #4.76 | 21% |
| 1 other player | #4.94 | 39% |
| 2 or more | #5.27 | 40% |
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 | #5.12 | +0.09 | 553 |
| Aphelios | Infinity Edge | #4.72 | -0.31 | 381 |
| Aphelios | Kraken's Fury | #4.95 | -0.08 | 368 |
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 | #4.80 | 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.
- #5DR Chase#0612Challenger · VN · 1,493 LP · level 8 · out at 5-6 · 2026-09-27
- #4T2010T#CKTGChallenger · VN · 1,501 LP · level 8 · out at 6-1 · 2026-09-22
- #6MJS Leofloresdc#ChembChallenger · LAS · 1,921 LP · level 9 · out at 5-3 · 2026-09-21
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.
+2 open4.83avg place160 gamesWithout
5.23avg place115 gamesPlaysInstead of4.76avg place59 gamesPlaysInstead of
+1 open6.16avg place43 gamesPlaysInstead ofTraits
Active on the core board, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.
Riftbeast4next 5Brawler2next 4Lunar2next 3Rapidfire2next 3Ravager2next 4Vanguard2next 4
Elderwood1next 3
Invoker1next 2
Sprykin1next 3
Summoner1next 2What 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 |
|---|---|
| Brawler | 24.8267744.82100 |
| Lunar | 25.0267835.1518544.8060 |
| Rapidfire | 25.1956634.70186 |
| Ravager | 25.0968444.1498 |
| Riftbeast | 34.9672555.50171 |
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+ | 292 | #5.06 | 40.8% | 7.5% |
| All ranks | 450 | #5.03 | 41.8% | 5.6% |
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.
| Comp | Tier | Shared units | Avg Place | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rapidfire Aphelios & Brambleback | A | 5 | #4.46 | 40,979 |
| Riftbeast Aphelios & Brambleback | B | 5 | #4.58 | 18,376 |
| Riftbeast Aphelios Vanguard | — | 5 | #4.92 | 925 |
| Rapidfire Aphelios (3an4k6) | — | 5 | #5.30 | 81 |
| Riftbeast Elder Dragon | S | 4 | #3.88 | 12,211 |
| Rapidfire Aphelios Lunar | — | 4 | #5.54 | 899 |
| Ravager Aphelios & Brambleback | — | 4 | #4.46 | 602 |
| Summoner Aphelios & Sentinel | — | 4 | #5.24 | 456 |
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.
Lunar 4 averages 4.80 here, against 5.15 at Lunar 3 (245 boards)
Sun and Moon
Sun and Moon+Rapidfire 3 averages 4.70 here, against 5.19 at Rapidfire 2 (752 boards)
U.R.FRiftbeast 3 averages 4.96 here, against 5.50 at Riftbeast 5 (896 boards)
Omega Riftbeast
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.