Riftbeast Elder Dragon Vanguard

Open in BuilderThe whole final board — the core at the star level it was measured at and with the carry’s items, and its flex picks — standing the way the board above does: by rule, and yours to move.

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.3 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

Build

Elder Dragon Deathblade, Infinity Edge, Red Buff · 20 games · #3.20

Components

B.F. Sword ×3 · Recurve Bow ×2 · Sparring Gloves

Contested?

Others holding Elder Dragon / Alune: nobody else: #4.29 · 1 other: #4.52 · 2+ others: #4.69

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.6 · stage 5: 8.9 · stage 6: 9.3

Games end

Lv 8 10% · Lv 9 72% · Lv 10 16%

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Final board

The whole board at level 9, where most of its games end. The core — the units on most of this family’s boards — at the star level and with the items they were measured holding; then the flex slots, dashed, with the unit its boards put there most. A slot no unit holds on a quarter of its boards is open.

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Riot's match data records no positions, so this board is placed by rule from each champion's attack range: melee in front, ranged behind, and the carries holding the most items in the back corners. The level buttons show the board at each level: the dashed ones are planned by rule (see How it’s played), the rest measured.

5Alune★★

• Archangel's Staff
• Spear of Shojin
• Jeweled Gauntlet

carry

5Elder Dragon★★

• Infinity Edge
• Last Whisper
• Deathblade

carry

5Gnar★★

• Thief's Gloves
• Sterak's Gage

5Taric★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor

4Sentinel★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor

3Diana★★

3Hecarim★★

2Alistar★★

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How it’s played

Where this comp’s games end, and its board at every level from 4 — a unit marked + is new since the level above. Level 8 and up are measured: the boards its games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days (2,523 games). 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. Rows marked real are the boards of the games that went out at that level holding four or more of this comp’s units — real boards on the way to it, not its own games.

Lv 4planElderwood 3Fae 2Vanguard 2Elder Dragon’s items on XayahAlune’s items on Hecarim

Lv 5planElderwood 3Vanguard 3Fae 2Elder Dragon’s items on XayahAlune’s items on Hecarim

Lv 6planVanguard 4Elderwood 3Fae 2Elder Dragon’s items on XayahAlune’s items on Hecarim

Lv 7real− Rakan, Xayah, Alistar

Lv 810%− Alune, Elise, Cassiopeia, Morgana

Lv 972%

Lv 1016%

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

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.6 · stage 5: 8.9 · stage 6: 9.3.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Elder Dragon or Alune, over 691 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, all ranks.

Champion	Item	Avg Place	vs comp	Games
Elder Dragon	Infinity Edge	#4.27	-0.28	1,447
Elder Dragon	Last Whisper	#4.34	-0.22	566
Elder Dragon	Deathblade	#4.28	-0.28	549

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
Elder Dragon	DeathbladeInfinity EdgeRed Buff	#3.20	20

Components to hold B.F. Sword ×3, Recurve Bow ×2, Sparring Gloves

Variations

Cores close enough to this one to be the same comp. Each line is what that version plays instead, how it placed and the games behind it; all of them are counted in the numbers above.

…and 11 smaller versions, 271 games between them. All of them are already counted in the numbers above; they are left off because no one of them is played often enough to plan around.

Traits

Active on the core board, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

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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.

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.

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.

Augments

Riot’s match-v1 data does not report which augments a player took, so there is no augment number on this page and none anywhere else on the site. The augment reference lists what each one grants.