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Solar Aphelios with Amumu

Also called Aphelios Fast 9 · Solar Fast 9

Fast 9ConsistentCarried by Aphelios

Teamfight Tactics Set 18·Patch 18.5·Ranked games, Diamond+, last 7 days·Updated 1 Nov 2026, 09:17 UTC·Difficulty Easy

No tier yet Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 58 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.

S comps in Diamond+ now: Riftbeast Elder Dragon & Draven, Riftbeast Elder Dragon. Every grade: the tier list.

Final board

The board at level 9, where most of its games end, from its games at all ranks over the last 14 days.

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

5Alune★
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Jeweled Gauntlet
4Amumu★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
  • Spirit Visage
4Aphelios★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Infinity Edge
  • Kraken's Fury
carry
4Lillia★★
  • Lunar Emblem
  • Protector's Vow
  • Adaptive Helm
4Sentinel★★
  • Protector's Vow
  • Lunar Emblem
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
2Kayle★★
2Sejuani★★
1Leona★★
5Taricflex

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Aphelios

How to play this

Level
Level to 9. Finishes at level 8.7 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.07 across every comp; this one averages 4.11, 0.04 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
Carries

Aphelios 3★ on 0% of boards

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

Stage by stage

Stages 2 and 3 are our plan; 4 to 6 are the level its players were measured at.

Stage 5 Level 8 measured

Its players average 8.4 when they go out in stage 5.

Level 9 around 5-1: about 20 rolls (40 gold) to 2-star Aphelios; about 30 if three copies of each are on other boards. model

Stage 6 Level 9 measured

Its players average 9.0 when they go out in stage 6.

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

Which version?

Five comps play Solar around Aphelios. They share the four below; the units only one of them plays tell you which one you are on.

Every version plays
LeonaKayleSejuaniAphelios
Not gradedSolar Aphelios
#4.03 avg58.9% top 42,905 games1-cost reroll at level 7
Played on about 1 board in 588 in the last 7 days; a grade needs 1 in 100.
Carried by Aphelios
Only this one plays
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No tier yetSolar Aphelios with Amumu
— avg— top 458 gamesFast 9
Carried by Aphelios

Ranked games, last 7 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 7 days   Not graded played too rarely to grade

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.

Works against it: Not a reroll comp (15)

By ruleNot a reroll comp: it 3-stars a unit in under 10% of boards, averaging level 8.76 (145)

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

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 Solar Aphelios with Amumu in TFT Set 18?

Fast 9. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.0 on average.

What items does Aphelios need?

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

Is Solar Aphelios with Amumu good in patch 18.5?

Not graded yet: 58 games at all ranks in the last 7 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #4.10.

More about this compladder boards, traits, by bracket, trend, also played

Traits

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

Solar3Defender2next 4Juggernaut2next 4Lunar2next 3Rapidfire2next 3Attuned1

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+58#4.1060.3%6.9%
All ranks58#4.1060.3%6.9%

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
Solar Aphelios & Amumu—7#4.323,258
Solar Aphelios & Amumu with Alune—6#2.9981
Lunar Amumu & Aphelios—6#2.4975
Solar Aphelios—5#4.033,100
Solar Kayle with ApheliosB4#4.5515,887
Solar Xayah & Kayle—4#4.4610,557
Solar Xayah & Kayle with Hecarim—4#3.06941
Vanguard Alune with Lillia—4#5.77335