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Vanguard Ahri

Also called Ahri Fast 8 · Vanguard Fast 8

Fast 8ConsistentCarried by Ahri

Teamfight Tactics Set 18·Patch 18.5·Ranked games, Diamond+, last 5 days·Updated 26 Oct 2026, 23:18 UTC·Difficulty Easy

No tier yet Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 169 in the last 5 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 8, where most of its games end, from its games at all ranks over the last 14 days. Press a level to see the board on the way.

The Night Arena: an obsidian TFT board lit in gold
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Positions are our rule by attack range, not measured. Riot's match data has no positions. Dashed levels are planned.

5Taric★
or
  • Elise
4Ahri★★
  • Jeweled Gauntlet
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Striker's Flail
carry
4Sentinel★
  • Protector's Vow
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
4Sett★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
3Diana★★
3Hecarim★★
1Karma★
4Morganaflex

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Ahri

How to play this

When
  • #6.22 alone50% of games
  • #6.38 with one other33% of games
Others on Ahri in the lobby, over 186 games of this patch at all ranks.
Level
Level to 8 and roll there. Its games also end at level 7 (3%). Level 8 around 4-2: about 22 rolls (44 gold) to 2-star Ahri; about 33 if three copies of each are on other boards. model Finishes at level 8.3 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.57 across every comp; this one averages 6.30, 1.73 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
Carries

Ahri 3★ on 0% of boards

Jeweled GauntletSpear of ShojinStriker's Flail Jeweled Gauntlet, Spear of Shojin, Striker's Flail

Stage by stage

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

Stage 2 Level 4 plan

Play Karma, Rakan, Yunara and Hecarim.

Ahri's items go on Yunara until Ahri comes in at level 7.

Stage 3 Level 6 plan

Add Elise and Diana.

Stage 4 Level 8 measured

Its players average 8.1 when they go out in stage 4.

Add Taric, Ahri, Morgana, Sentinel and Sett; sell Rakan, Elise and Yunara.

71% of its games end at level 8.

Stage 5 Level 8 measured

Its players average 8.2 when they go out in stage 5.

Stage 6 Level 9 measured

Its players average 8.6 when they go out in stage 6.

Sell Morgana.

25% of its games end at level 9.

Its games end around round 5-3 on average, with 9 gold left.

Board at every levelthe board level by level, with its traits and the options its games play

The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 8 up it is measured over 540 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

73%871%925%
Lv 4planKarmaRakanYunaraHecarim2Ahri’s items on Yunara
Lv 5planKarmaRakanEliseYunaraHecarimAddedElise3Ahri’s items on Yunara
Lv 6planKarmaRakanEliseYunaraDianaHecarimAddedDiana4Ahri’s items on Yunara
Lv 7planKarmaDianaHecarimAhriYunaraRakanEliseAddedAhri432
Lv 871%TaricAhriMorganaSentinelSettDianaHecarimKarmaAddedTaricMorganaSentinelSettSoldYunaraRakanElise14322
Lv 925%TaricAhriSentinelSettDianaHecarimKarmaMorganaCassiopeiaAddedCassiopeia14332

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

How these rows are made

Level 8 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.

Variationswhat close versions add or leave out, and how they placed

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.

Lv 8TaricAhriMorganaSentinelSettCassiopeiaDianaHecarim6.09avg place103 gamesPlaysCassiopeiaInstead ofKarma
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.

AP carry

By ruleSuits this carry: Ahri is built for ability power here (454 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier CapsHold the LineSoul AwakeningDark RitualEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTSeraphim's StaffTons of Stats!Stand 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 8.24 (540)

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

By ruleWrong damage type: Ahri is built for ability power here (454 boards)

Deadlier BladesCybernetic ImplantsFocused Fire

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 Vanguard Ahri in TFT Set 18?

Fast 8. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.6 on average. Its games end most often at level 8 (71%).

What items does Ahri need?

On its final board Ahri holds Jeweled Gauntlet, Spear of Shojin and Striker's Flail.

Is Vanguard Ahri good in patch 18.5?

Not graded yet: 186 games at all ranks in the last 5 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #6.31.

Is Vanguard Ahri contested?

Contest costs it little: with nobody else on Ahri it placed #6.22 (50% of games), with one other #6.38 (33%), over 186 games of this patch at all ranks.

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

Traits

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

Emerald Aspect1Vanguard4next 6Blossom3next 5Invoker2next 3Spellweaver2next 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
Invoker25.9421136.3268
Spellweaver26.2439645.5775
Vanguard26.826646.14425

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+169#6.3016.6%0.6%
All ranks186#6.3116.7%0.5%

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.