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Riftbeast Brambleback & Aphelios with Amumu

Also called Aphelios Brambleback Fast 8 · Riftbeast Fast 8

Fast 8ConsistentCarried by Aphelios & Brambleback

Teamfight Tactics Set 18·Patch 18.5·Ranked games, Diamond+, last 5 days·Updated 26 Oct 2026, 23:18 UTC·Difficulty Easy

No tier yet Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 87 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 (same carry), Riftbeast Elder Dragon & Draven (same trait). Every grade: the tier list.

Final board

The board at level 8, 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
  • Warmog's Armor
  • Spirit Visage
4Aphelios★★
  • Infinity Edge
  • Kraken's Fury
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
carry
4Brambleback★★
  • Edge of Night
  • Rapidfire Emblem
  • Quicksilver
carry
4Sentinel★★
  • Protector's Vow
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
4Zyra★★
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Rapidfire Emblem
3Mama Beak★★
1Rakan★★
3Dianaflex

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Aphelios

How to play this

Level
Level to 8 and roll there. Its games also end at level 10 (2%). 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 8.4 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.44 across every comp; this one averages 5.59, 1.15 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
Carries

Aphelios 3★ on 1% of boards

Infinity EdgeKraken's FuryGuinsoo's Rageblade Infinity Edge, Kraken's Fury, Guinsoo's Rageblade

Brambleback 3★ on 1% of boards

Edge of NightRapidfire EmblemQuicksilver Edge of Night, Rapidfire Emblem, Quicksilver

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, Yorick, Scuttlecrab and Mama Beak.

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

Brambleback's items go on Scuttlecrab until Brambleback comes in at level 8.

Stage 3 Level 6 plan

Add Murkwolf and Diana.

Stage 5 Level 8 measured

Its players average 8.3 when they go out in stage 5.

Add Amumu, Aphelios, Brambleback, Sentinel and Zyra; sell Yorick, Murkwolf and Scuttlecrab.

63% of its games end at level 8.

Stage 6 Level 9 measured

Its players average 8.6 when they go out in stage 6.

Sell Zyra and Diana.

35% of its games end at level 9.

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

Which version?

Two comps play Riftbeast around Brambleback. They share the four below; the units only one of them plays tell you which one you are on.

Every version plays
or ApheliosBramblebackSentinelor Diana
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No tier yetRiftbeast Brambleback & Aphelios with Amumu
— avg— top 487 gamesFast 8
Carried by Aphelios & Brambleback
Only this one plays
RakanMama BeakAmumuZyra

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

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 391 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

863%935%102%
Lv 4planRakanYorickScuttlecrabMama Beak32Aphelios’s items on Mama BeakBrambleback’s items on Scuttlecrab
Lv 5planRakanYorickMurkwolfScuttlecrabMama BeakAddedMurkwolf332Aphelios’s items on Mama BeakBrambleback’s items on Murkwolf
Lv 6planRakanYorickMurkwolfScuttlecrabDianaMama BeakAddedDiana33222Aphelios’s items on Mama BeakBrambleback’s items on Murkwolf
Lv 7planRakanDianaMama BeakApheliosYorickMurkwolfScuttlecrabAddedAphelios3322222Brambleback’s items on Murkwolf
Lv 863%AmumuApheliosBramblebackSentinelZyraMama BeakDianaRakanAddedAmumuBramblebackSentinelZyraSoldYorickMurkwolfScuttlecrab13322222
Lv 935%AmumuApheliosBramblebackSentinelMama BeakRakanGnarZyraDianaAddedGnar13322222

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. A 2 on a portrait: that unit takes two team slots.

Lv 9DravenElder Dragon2GnarAmumuBramblebackSentinelMama BeakRakan6.43avg place93 gamesPlaysDravenElder Dragon2Instead ofApheliosZyraDiana
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.

#4.22

Rapidfire 5: averages 4.22 here, against 4.86 at Rapidfire 2 (230 boards)

AD carry

By ruleSuits this carry: Aphelios is built for attack damage here (290 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier BladesHold the LineSoul AwakeningCybernetic ImplantsEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTTons of Stats!Focused FireStand 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 8.39 (391)

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

By ruleWrong damage type: Aphelios is built for attack damage here (290 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.

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 Brambleback & Aphelios with Amumu in TFT Set 18?

Fast 8. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.6 on average. Its games end most often at level 8 (63%).

What items does Aphelios need?

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

Is Riftbeast Brambleback & Aphelios with Amumu good in patch 18.5?

Not graded yet: 95 games at all ranks in the last 5 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #5.61.

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.

Thornmaiden1Riftbeast3next 5Vanguard3next 4Juggernaut2next 4Lunar2next 3Rapidfire2next 3Ravager2next 4Summoner2next 3

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
Rapidfire24.8616654.2264
Vanguard25.3025044.52122

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+87#5.5933.3%1.1%
All ranks95#5.6132.6%1.1%

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.

Also played

Families sharing at least 4 core units with this one — the same board taken a different way.