Fast 8ConsistentCarried by Elder DragonA Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.5 ranked games.
Difficulty Medium Goes to level 9 in 68% of games
Updated 20 Oct 2026, 20:22 UTC · ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+ · Patch 18.5
Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 292 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.
Take it when you hold Sparring Gloves and B.F. Sword, and nobody else is on Elder Dragon
Others on Elder Dragon in the lobby, over 881 games of this patch at all ranks.
Scout the lobby: with two or more other players on Elder Dragon it placed #5.77, against #5.38 with nobody else on them.
First Striker's Flail (Giant's Belt + Sparring Gloves)
Of Elder Dragon's most played build, the item its boards placed best with: #4.99 over 132 boards.
Then: 
Sparring Gloves ×2, 
B.F. Sword, 
Recurve Bow
Elder Dragon's items go on Cinderling until Elder Dragon comes in at level 8. plan
Its games end at Lv 8 32% · Lv 9 65% · Lv 10 2%
Elder Dragon 3★ on 0% of boards
Infinity Edge, Last Whisper, Striker's Flail
#4.97 over 34 games
Elder Dragon Infinity Edge, Last Whisper, Striker's Flail · 34 games · #4.97Sparring Gloves ×3 · B.F. Sword · 
Giant's Belt · Recurve BowThe whole board at level 9, where most of its games end, drawn from its games at all ranks over the last 14 days. 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; the gold one adds the champion that placed best there.
Elder Dragontakes 2 team slots★Infinity EdgeLast WhisperDeathbladeAmumu★
AsheBrambleback★★Sterak's GageEdge of NightSentinel★★Protector's VowGargoyle StoneplateDravenflex
CinderlingMaokaiflex
DianaScuttlecrabflex
Krug
MurkwolfPebblesflex
Rakan
TaricPaste it into the game’s Team Planner to have these champions marked in your shop.
What to do at each stage, from the numbers below: stages 2 and 3 are our plan, 4 to 6 the level its players were measured at.
Play Cinderling, Pebbles, Gromp and Scuttlecrab.
Elder Dragon's items go on Cinderling until Elder Dragon comes in at level 8.
Add Yorick and Mama Beak.
Its players average 8.5 when they go out in stage 4.
Add Draven, Elder Dragon, Maokai, Amumu, Brambleback and Sentinel; sell Cinderling, Pebbles, Yorick, Gromp and Mama Beak.
3★ targets: Cinderling 24% · Pebbles 23%
65% of its games end at level 9.
Level 8 around 4-2: about 163 rolls (326 gold) to 2-star Elder Dragon; about 235 if three copies of each are on other boards. model
Its players average 8.7 when they go out in stage 5.
Its players average 8.9 when they go out in stage 6.
Its games end around round 5-4 on average, with 8 gold left.
The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 8 up it is measured over 842 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.
4Elder Dragon’s items on CinderlingAdded5Elder Dragon’s items on Mama BeakAdded5
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2Elder Dragon’s items on Mama BeakAdded6
222Elder Dragon’s items on Mama Beak2Added2Sold
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Added111642The 10th championall: #2.31 · 33% won · 584 gamesVi#1.9153% won · 34Murkwolf#2.2134% won · 211Krug#2.2434% won · 209Taric#2.2732% won · 391 · most played3★ targets Cinderling24% Pebbles23%
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.
How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Elder Dragon, over 881 games of this patch at all ranks. 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 | #5.38 | 46% |
| 1 other player | #5.66 | 39% |
| 2 or more | #5.77 | 16% |
What people search for about this comp, answered from the numbers on this page.
Fast 8. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.9 on average. Its games end most often at level 9 (65%).
Its most played build this patch is Infinity Edge, Last Whisper and Striker's Flail: #4.97 over 34 games.
At all ranks: average place #5.76 and 22% top 4 over 401 games in the last 7 days.
Yes, contest costs it: with nobody else on Elder Dragon it placed #5.38 (46% of games), with one other #5.66 (39%), with two or more #5.77 (16%), over 881 games of this patch at all ranks.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elder Dragon | Infinity Edge | #5.42 | -0.34 | 405 |
| Elder Dragon | Last Whisper | #5.34 | -0.42 | 186 |
| Elder Dragon | Deathblade | #5.29 | -0.47 | 162 |
The carries’ most played three-item builds this patch, with the placement of the games they were built in.
| Champion | Build | Avg Place | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elder Dragon | Infinity EdgeLast WhisperStriker's Flail | #4.97 | 34 |
Components to hold Sparring Gloves ×3, B.F. Sword, Giant's Belt, Recurve Bow
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.
26.41avg place233 gamesPlaysInstead of24.13avg place187 gamesPlaysInstead of2
5.79avg place92 gamesPlaysInstead ofWhat 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.
AD carry
By ruleSuits this carry: Elder Dragon is built for attack damage here (629 boards)
Baron's Lair
Coronation
Deadlier Blades
Hold the Line
Soul Awakening
Cybernetic Implants
Double Trouble
Early Learnings
Embiggen
NO SCOUT NO PIVOT
Tons of Stats!
Focused Fire
Stand UnitedBy ruleWrong damage type: Elder Dragon is built for attack damage here (629 boards)
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.
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.
Active on the final board above, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.
Apex Predator1Bounty Seeker1Old Growth1Riftbeast6next 7Juggernaut3next 4Invoker2next 3What 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 |
|---|---|
| Juggernaut | 25.6551446.16133 |
| Riftbeast | 36.5031056.0120474.23315 |
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 | #5.81 | 22.6% | 4.5% |
| All ranks | 401 | #5.76 | 22.2% | 4.0% |
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.
