TFT CODEX

Summoner Vanguard

Level 8

Updated 01 Oct 2026, 06:18 UTC · Patch 18.3

—Tier
#5.30Avg Place
35.6%Top 4 %
4.9%Win %
0.0%Play Rate
568Games

Game plan

How it’s played
Level 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.3 on average.
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.7 · stage 5: 7.9 · stage 6: 8.3
Games end
Lv 7 23% · Lv 8 58% · Lv 9 16%

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Final board

The whole board at level 8, 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. A gold slot is the combination that placed best there, from the same games; the one they played most is under it. Under a unit, or: the champions its boards play in that slot instead, measured on its level-8 boards this patch.

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

4Sentinel★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Protector's Vow
  • Warmogs Armor
3Azir★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Hextech Gunblade
or
  • Zyra
3Diana★★
or
  • Rek'Sai
3Mama Beak★★
or
  • Warwick
4Apheliosflex
or
  • Murkwolf
4Bramblebackflex
or
  • Krug
  • Pebbles
4Malphitebest
or
  • Kha'Zixmost played
4Morganabest
or
  • Soraka

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 7 up it is measured over 2,204 games; below that it is planned.

723%858%916%103%
Lv 4planCinderlingPebblesMurkwolfDiana32
Lv 5planEliseDianaMurkwolfPebblesCinderlingAddedElise322
Lv 6realDianaSentinelBramblebackEliseKha'ZixMorganaAddedSentinelBramblebackKha'ZixMorganaSoldMurkwolfPebblesCinderling1322
Lv 723%AzirMama BeakDianaKha'ZixSentinelHecarimKrugAddedAzirMama BeakHecarimKrugSoldBramblebackEliseMorgana1332
Lv 858%ApheliosBramblebackSentinelAzirMama BeakDianaMalphiteMorganaAddedApheliosBramblebackMalphiteMorganaSoldKha'ZixHecarimKrug132222222Optionsall: #5.68 · 2% won · 118 gamesMalphite + Morgana#5.500% won · 38Malphite + Soraka#6.130% won · 38
Lv 916%ApheliosBramblebackSentinelSorakaAzirMama BeakDianaKha'ZixMorganaAddedSorakaKha'ZixSoldMalphite1322222221

3★ targets Kha'Zix22%

How these rows are made

Level 7 and up are the boards this comp’s games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days. 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. 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. Under a measured level, its options: what its games put in the slots past that level’s core this patch, 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.

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.

ChampionItemAvg Placevs compGames
Kha'ZixHand Of Justice#4.68-0.61662
ApheliosGuinsoo's Rageblade#5.58+0.29643
SentinelGargoyle Stoneplate#5.20-0.09547

At the top of the ladder

The newest boards of this comp from the players on our leaderboard, with where they placed. A name opens that player’s games, board and items included.

  1. #6혁 듕#KR1Challenger · KR · 1,494 LP · level 7 · out at 5-3 · 2026-10-01
  2. #6Alizabé Lan#2703Challenger · VN · 1,650 LP · level 8 · out at 5-2 · 2026-09-25
  3. #4eusouolucas#1212Challenger · BR · 1,653 LP · level 7 · out at 6-1 · 2026-09-24
  4. #5FW K寶寶生氣了#1234Challenger · TW · 1,434 LP · level 7 · out at 5-6 · 2026-09-19

Variations

Other boards this comp ends on. Each row is a version’s usual final board and what it plays instead of this comp’s own board at that level; all of them count in the numbers above.

Lv 8BramblebackSentinelSorakaAzirDianaHecarimKha'ZixMama Beak4.48avg place275 gamesPlaysSorakaHecarimInstead ofApheliosMorgana
Lv 8BramblebackSentinelAzirDianaKha'ZixMurkwolfWarwickCamille4.35avg place218 gamesPlaysMurkwolfWarwickCamilleInstead ofApheliosMama BeakMorgana
Lv 8SentinelSorakaAzirDianaKha'ZixKrugMama BeakRek'Sai5.14avg place207 gamesPlaysSorakaKrugRek'SaiInstead ofApheliosBramblebackMorgana
Lv 8ApheliosSentinelSorakaAzirDianaMama BeakWarwickPebbles6.21avg place149 gamesPlaysSorakaWarwickPebblesInstead ofBramblebackMorganaKha'Zix
Lv 7SentinelAzirDianaHecarimKha'ZixMama BeakRakan6.26avg place141 gamesPlaysRakanInstead ofKrug

Traits

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

Summoner2next 3Vanguard2next 4Riftbeast2next 3Blackthorn1next 2Executioner1next 2Invoker1next 2Lunar1next 2Rapidfire1next 2Ravager1next 2

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
Blackthorn25.341,10644.5292
Executioner25.4186634.4433143.97152
Flora Fatalis15.3276125.13156
Invoker25.4883035.2662
Lunar25.401,07135.18167
Rapidfire25.401,11534.8725545.0365
Ravager25.431,31344.6123863.94167
Rival14.921,0224.6662
Summoner25.511,14034.52231
Vanguard25.341,60245.18233

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+568#5.3035.6%4.9%
All ranks939#5.2935.6%5.5%

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
Summoner Aphelios & Sentinel—4#5.27475
Summoner Aphelios & Malphite—4#4.1471

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.

MeasuredThe comp’s own placement at a trait’s levels, beside the augments that give the trait.

  • Lunar 3 averages 5.18 here, against 5.40 at Lunar 2 (1238 boards)

    Sun and MoonSun and Moon+
  • Blackthorn 4 averages 4.52 here, against 5.34 at Blackthorn 2 (1198 boards)

    Item Extraction
  • Flora Fatalis 2 averages 5.13 here, against 5.32 at Flora Fatalis 1 (917 boards)

    Consuming Flora
  • Rapidfire 3 averages 4.87 here, against 5.40 at Rapidfire 2 (1370 boards)

    U.R.F

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.