Riftbeast Elder Dragon & Ashe Vanguard
Fast 9Carried by Elder Dragon & Ashe
Updated 02 Oct 2026, 10:18 UTC · Patch 18.3
Game plan
- How it’s played
- Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.1 on average.
- Play it when
- nobody else is on Elder Dragon or Ashe (it placed #4.57 then, #4.96 against two or more)
- Roll
- Level 9 around 5-1: about 33 rolls (66 gold) to 2-star Elder Dragon; about 54 if three copies of each are on other boards. model
- Pace
- Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.4 · stage 5: 8.8 · stage 6: 9.1
- Games end
- Lv 8 19% · Lv 9 66% · Lv 10 13%
- Vs its level
- Finishes at level 8.9 on average. Boards at its levels average 3.88 across every comp; this one averages 4.87, 0.99 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.Finishes at level 8.8 on average. Boards at its levels average 3.89 across every comp; this one averages 4.83, 0.94 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
Final board
The whole board at level 9, 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.
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.
Ashe★★- Spear of Shojin
- Red Buff
- Guinsoo's Rageblade
Elder Dragontakes 2 team slots★★- Infinity Edge
- Deathblade
- Striker's Flail
Kennen★- Thief's Gloves
- Edge of Night
Maokai★- Gargoyle Stoneplate
- Warmogs Armor
- Spirit Visage
Taric★Sentinel★★- Gargoyle Stoneplate
- Protector's Vow
Diana★★
Amumu
Cinderling
Hecarim★★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 8 up it is measured over 882 games; below that it is planned.
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2Elder Dragon’s items on MurkwolfAshe’s items on Diana
Added32Elder Dragon’s items on MurkwolfAshe’s items on EliseAdded42Elder Dragon’s items on MurkwolfAshe’s items on EliseAdded5
3
22Elder Dragon’s items on MurkwolfAshe’s items on Elise
AddedSold
15
222Added2Sold
11
1432Added11143
2
2Not 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.
Contested?
How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Elder Dragon or Ashe, over 498 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 | #4.57 | 15% |
| 1 other player | #4.80 | 35% |
| 2 or more | #4.96 | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elder Dragon | Infinity Edge | #4.38 | -0.46 | 399 |
| Elder Dragon | Deathblade | #4.21 | -0.62 | 150 |
| Elder Dragon | Striker's Flail | #4.47 | -0.36 | 140 |
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. A 2 on a portrait: that unit takes two team slots.
2+1 open5.05avg place131 gamesPlaysInstead of5.15avg place117 gamesPlaysInstead of
6.04avg place73 gamesPlaysInstead ofAugments 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.
By ruleSuits this carry Elder Dragon is built for attack damage here (550 boards)
Baron's Lair
Coronation
Deadlier Blades
Hold the Line
Soul Awakening
Cybernetic Implants
Early Learnings
Embiggen
NO SCOUT NO PIVOT
Tons of Stats!
Focused Fire
Stand UnitedWorks against it: Not a reroll comp (14), Wrong damage type (3)
By ruleNot a reroll comp it 3-stars a unit in under 10% of boards, averaging level 8.89 (882)
Commerce Core
Invested+
Invested++
Prismatic Ticket
Upward Mobility
Cognitive Overload
Epic Rolldown
Epoch
Epoch+
Trade Sector
Trade Sector+
Crafted Crafting2 more
Patience Is A Virtue
RecombobulatorBy ruleWrong damage type Elder Dragon is built for attack damage here (550 boards)
Deadlier Caps
Dark Ritual
Seraphim's StaffRiot’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.
- #1Ssangyeop#1234Challenger · KR · 1,570 LP · level 9 · 2026-09-27
- #1Chico Estrella#DTHChallenger · LAN · 2,017 LP · level 9 · 2026-09-20
- #4Jura#729Challenger · TR · 1,484 LP · level 9 · out at 6-1 · 2026-09-21
Traits
Active on the final board above, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.
Apex Predator1Emerald Aspect1Old Growth1Vanguard4next 6Riftbeast3next 5What 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 |
|---|---|
| Vanguard | 25.0731744.65506 |
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+ | 247 | #4.87 | 44.9% | 10.5% |
| All ranks | 358 | #4.83 | 45.2% | 10.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riftbeast Elder Dragon & Draven | S | 5 | #4.10 | 173,314 |
| Riftbeast Elder Dragon Vanguard Elderwood | — | 5 | #4.55 | 756 |
| Vanguard Ashe | — | 5 | #4.72 | 324 |
| Juggernaut Ashe | S | 4 | #3.96 | 93,682 |
| Lunar Alune | S | 4 | #4.06 | 17,759 |
| Inferno Elder Dragon | — | 4 | #5.78 | 898 |
| Riftbeast Elder Dragon Vanguard | — | 4 | #3.20 | 873 |
| Lunar Vanguard Emerald Aspect | — | 4 | #4.47 | 827 |