Riftbeast Aphelios

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.5 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 Guinsoo's Rageblade, Infinity Edge, Kraken's Fury · 43 games · #4.72

Components

Recurve Bow ×2 · B.F. Sword · Needlessly Large Rod · Negatron Cloak · Sparring Gloves

Contested?

Others holding Aphelios: nobody else: #5.15 · 1 other: #5.09 · 2+ others: #5.31

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.0 · stage 5: 8.1 · stage 6: 8.5

Games end

Lv 7 3% · Lv 8 70% · Lv 9 26%

Vs its level

Finishes at level 8.2 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.61 across every comp; this one averages 5.15, 0.54 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.

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Final board

The whole board at level 8, 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. Under a unit, or: who its games play there instead.

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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.

4Aphelios★★

• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Infinity Edge
• Kraken's Fury

carry

4Sentinel★★

• Protector's Vow
• Gargoyle Stoneplate

3Diana★★

3Krug★★

3Mama Beak★★

4Malphiteflex

or

• Kog'Maw

4Settflex

or

• Rek'Sai

4Zyraflex

or

• Brambleback

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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 1,480 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned.

Lv 4plan32Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 5planAdded322Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 6planAdded32222Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 7planAddedSold52222Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 870%AddedSold11322222

Lv 926%AddedSold113322222

Not a reroll comp: nothing is 3-starred on even 1 board in 5.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Aphelios, over 410 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.

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.

Champion	Item	Avg Place	vs comp	Games
Aphelios	Guinsoo's Rageblade	#5.18	+0.00	850
Aphelios	Infinity Edge	#5.13	-0.05	721
Aphelios	Kraken's Fury	#5.01	-0.17	599

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	#4.72	43
Aphelios	Guinsoo's RagebladeInfinity EdgeLast Whisper	#5.32	25

Components to hold Recurve Bow ×2, B.F. Sword, Needlessly Large Rod, Negatron Cloak, Sparring Gloves

Variations

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 85.37avg place407 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 8+1 open5.06avg place62 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 8+1 open4.87avg place55 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 85.04avg place55 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 85.24avg place49 gamesPlaysInstead of

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 3 averages 4.60 here, against 5.22 at Lunar 2 (1293 boards)

  Sun and MoonSun and Moon+

• Rapidfire 3 averages 4.71 here, against 5.14 at Rapidfire 2 (1359 boards)

  U.R.F

By ruleSuits this carry Aphelios is built for attack damage here (1331 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier BladesHold the LineSoul AwakeningCybernetic ImplantsDouble TroubleEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTTons of Stats!Focused Fire

1 more

Stand 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 8.26 (1480)

Commerce CoreInvested+Invested++Prismatic TicketUpward MobilityCalculated LossCognitive OverloadEpic RolldownEpochEpoch+Trade SectorTrade Sector+

3 more

Crafted CraftingPatience Is A VirtueRecombobulator

By ruleWrong damage type Aphelios is built for attack damage here (1331 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. #3whyyoumadpro#EUWChallenger · EUW · 1,498 LP · level 8 · out at 6-1 · 2026-10-10
2. #3shain22#EUWChallenger · EUW · 1,548 LP · level 8 · out at 6-1 · 2026-10-07
3. #4TTV KatsutaxD#TFTChallenger · EUW · 1,688 LP · level 8 · out at 6-1 · 2026-10-05

Traits

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

Monolith1Thornmaiden1Riftbeast3next 5Brawler2next 4Lunar2next 3Rapidfire2next 3Summoner2next 3Vanguard2next 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.

Trait	Placement at each tier
Brawler	25.091,29844.7060
Lunar	25.221,07334.6022044.8666
Rapidfire	25.141,20234.71157
Summoner	25.0481435.2874

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+	291	#5.15	36.1%	2.4%
All ranks	410	#5.18	36.8%	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.

5.378

5.139

5.0610

5.2411

5.1812

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	4	#4.40	20,896
Riftbeast Aphelios & Brambleback	—	4	#4.65	13,131
Rapidfire Aphelios Lunar	—	4	#5.25	909
Riftbeast Aphelios Vanguard	—	4	#4.45	258
Adaptor Aphelios & Nidalee	—	4	#4.98	128
Vanguard Aphelios Thornmaiden	—	4	#5.03	92
Riftbeast Sentinel & Aphelios Summoner	—	4	#6.42	67