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Summoner Aphelios & Lillia

Also called Aphelios Lillia Fast 9 · Summoner Fast 9

Fast 9ConsistentCarried by Aphelios & Lillia

Teamfight Tactics Set 18·Patch 18.5·Ranked games, Diamond+, last 7 days·Updated 29 Oct 2026, 19:18 UTC·Difficulty Easy

No tier yet Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 56 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, Riftbeast Elder Dragon & Draven. 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.

4Aphelios★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Infinity Edge
  • Kraken's Fury
carry
4Lillia★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
  • Spirit Visage
carry
3Diana★★
  • Thief's Gloves
  • Jeweled Gauntlet
3Fiddlesticks★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Spirit Visage
3Mama Beak★★
  • Last Whisper
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
2Warwick★★
1Rakan★★
1Veigar★
1Yorick★★

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Aphelios

How to play this

Level
Level to 9. 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 Finishes at level 8.6 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.20 across every comp; this one averages 7.03, 2.83 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
Carries

Aphelios 3★ on 1% of boards

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

Lillia 3★ on 0% of boards

Gargoyle StoneplateWarmog's ArmorSpirit Visage Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmog's Armor, Spirit Visage

Stage by stage

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

Stage 4 Level 8 measured

Its players average 8.4 when they go out in stage 4.

Stage 5 Level 9 measured

Its players average 8.8 when they go out in stage 5.

Its games end around round 5-1 on average, with 12 gold left.

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 8.68 (190)

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 Summoner Aphelios & Lillia in TFT Set 18?

Fast 9. Players of this comp who go out in stage 5 are level 8.8 on average.

What items does Aphelios need?

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

Is Summoner Aphelios & Lillia good in patch 18.5?

Not graded yet: 65 games at all ranks in the last 7 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #6.98.

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

Traits

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

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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+56#7.048.9%0.0%
All ranks65#6.989.2%1.5%

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
Fae Aphelios—5#5.561,747
Fae Lillia & Azir—5#6.0260
Fae Aphelios with Alune—5#4.7753
Spellweaver Ahri & Alune—4#5.25440
Vanguard Kha'Zix with Aphelios—4#4.79379
Inferno Aphelios with Lux—4#4.71327
Fae Aphelios & Brambleback—4#4.83281
Fae Aphelios with Sentinel—4#5.46255