TFT CODEX

Riftbeast Elder Dragon

Fast 9Carried by Elder DragonA Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.4b ranked games.

Updated 17 Oct 2026, 08:18 UTC · ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+ · Patch 18.4b

Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 61 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.

Elder Dragon

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.2 on average.
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: 8.7 · stage 5: 8.9 · stage 6: 9.2
Games end
Lv 8 10% · Lv 9 80% · Lv 10 10%
Vs its level
Finishes at level 9.1 on average. Boards at its levels average 3.59 across every comp; this one averages 5.36, 1.77 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 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.

The Night Arena: an obsidian TFT board lit in gold
★★
★★
★★

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.

5Elder Dragontakes 2 team slots★★
  • Infinity Edge
  • Last Whisper
  • Deathblade
carry
5Kennen★
  • Thief's Gloves
  • Hand Of Justice
5Maokai★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Spirit Visage
  • Warmog's Armor
4Amumu★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
  • Spirit Visage
4Sentinel★
2Shen★★
1Rakan★★
5Luxflex

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 9 up it is measured over 203 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

810%980%1010%
Lv 4planRakanVarusYorickShen22Elder Dragon’s items on Varus
Lv 5planPebblesRakanVarusYorickShenAddedPebbles22Elder Dragon’s items on Varus
Lv 6planPebblesRakanVarusYorickScuttlecrabShenAddedScuttlecrab32Elder Dragon’s items on Varus
Lv 7planPebblesRakanVarusYorickScuttlecrabShenAmumuAddedAmumu43Elder Dragon’s items on Varus
Lv 8planRakanShenAmumuSentinelVarusScuttlecrabPebblesYorickAddedSentinel43322Elder Dragon’s items on Varus
Lv 980%Elder Dragon2KennenMaokaiAmumuSentinelShenRakanLuxAddedElder Dragon2KennenMaokaiLuxSoldVarusScuttlecrabPebblesYorick1113332

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

How these rows are made

Level 9 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.

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.

ChampionItemAvg Placevs compGames
Elder DragonInfinity Edge#5.23+0.02115
Elder DragonLast Whisper#5.39+0.1749
Elder DragonDeathblade#4.65-0.5743

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.

Lv 9AsheElder Dragon2KennenMaokaiAmumuSentinelShenAkali5.33avg place33 gamesPlaysAsheAkaliInstead ofRakanLux

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.

By ruleSuits this comp: it averages level 9.00, so levelling is the plan (203 boards)

Birthday PresentBuild A BudGoing LongGolden GambleGolden Gamble+Golden Gamble++Hard CommitHedge FundInvestment Strategy IILevel Up!Lucky GlovesLucky Gloves+
64 moreLuxury SubscriptionMoney MonsoonPrismatic DestinyPrismatic Destiny+Shimmerscale EssenceShopping SpreeThe Trait TreeThe Trait Tree+Urf's Grab BagAdvanced LoanAdvanced Loan+Big Grab BagBirthday ReunionBooster PackBooster Pack+Booster Pack++Clear MindCluttered MindConsuming FloraExclusive CustomizationExplosive GrowthExplosive Growth+Gold DestinyGold Destiny+Hard BargainHeroic Grab BagHeroic Grab Bag+Heroic Grab Bag++HustlerInfinity ProtectionInvestment Strategy ILate Game ScalingMalicious MonetizationMax BuildMoney HungryMoney Hungry+Patient StudyPilferSlammin'Slammin'+Solo LevelingSpeedy Double KillSpreading RootsSpreading Roots+The Golden DragonTime SkipCalled ShotCaretaker's AllyCognitive TaxCognitive Tax+ExpeditionFeeling LuckyGood For Something IIron AssetsKick StartKingslayerLate Game SpecialistOne, Two, Five!Pandora's BenchSilver DestinySilver Destiny+Silver Destiny++Silver SpoonYoung and Wild and Free

By ruleSuits this carry: Elder Dragon is built for attack damage here (160 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier BladesHold the LineSoul AwakeningCybernetic ImplantsDouble TroubleEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTTons of Stats!Focused Fire
1 moreStand 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 9.00 (203)

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

By ruleWrong damage type: Elder Dragon is built for attack damage here (160 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

Traits

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

Apex Predator1Avatar1Old Growth1Inferno3next 5Juggernaut3next 4Riftbeast3next 5Vanguard2next 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.

TraitPlacement at each tier
Inferno26.236254.2788
Juggernaut25.1511045.4780

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+61#5.3634.4%9.8%
All ranks73#5.2237.0%11.0%

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.

CompTierShared unitsAvg PlaceGames
Riftbeast Elder Dragon & DravenS5#4.23143,435
Executioner Kennen Defender—5#5.13205
Riftbeast Draven & Elder Dragon Vanguard—5#5.75117
Juggernaut Ashe—4#4.3713,580
Inferno Draven—4#4.991,763
Juggernaut Ezreal & Kennen—4#5.50605
Riftbeast Elder Dragon Vanguard—4#3.10519
Inferno Elder Dragon—4#5.93431