TFT CODEX

Vanguard Alune

Fast 9High Win %Carried by Alune

Updated 28 Sep 2026, 08:18 UTC · Patch 18.3

STier
#3.84Avg Place
60.6%Top 4 %
22.0%Win %
0.3%Play Rate
3,600Games

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.

Alune

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.2 on average.
Roll
Level 9 around 5-1: about 33 rolls (66 gold) to 2-star Alune; about 54 if three copies of each are on other boards. model
Build
Alune Alune Jeweled GauntletNashor's ToothSpear of Shojin Jeweled Gauntlet, Nashor's Tooth, Spear of Shojin · 105 games · #3.70
Components
Needlessly Large RodNeedlessly Large Rod · Sparring GlovesSparring Gloves · Recurve BowRecurve Bow · Giant's BeltGiant's Belt · B.F. SwordB.F. Sword · Tear of the GoddessTear of the Goddess
Contested?
Others holding Alune: nobody else: #3.68 · 1 other: #3.87 · 2+ others: #4.15
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.4 · stage 5: 8.7 · stage 6: 9.2
Games end
Lv 8 15% · Lv 9 67% · Lv 10 17%

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.

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.

5Alune★★
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Jeweled Gauntlet
  • Archangel's Staff
carry
5Taric★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
4Sentinel★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Protector's Vow
  • Warmogs Armor
3Diana★★
3Hecarim★★
5Ivernflex
5Luxflex
4Apheliosflex
4Morganaflex

Also in the flex slots Elder Dragon

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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 (15,120 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.

815%967%1017%
Lv 4planPebblesRakanTeemoHecarimInvoker 2Vanguard 2Alune’s items on Teemo
Lv 5planEliseHecarimRakanTeemoPebblesVanguard 3Invoker 2Alune’s items on Teemo
Lv 6realEliseDianaHecarimMorganaSentinelCassiopeia− Rakan, Teemo, Pebbles
Lv 7realDianaHecarimSentinelEliseMorganaCassiopeia
Lv 815%TaricApheliosSentinelDianaHecarimAluneLux+1 open− Elise, Morgana, Cassiopeia
Lv 967%AluneLuxTaricSentinelDianaHecarimApheliosIvernMorgana
Lv 1017%AluneIvernLuxTaricSentinelDianaHecarimApheliosMorganaMaokai

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

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.4 · stage 5: 8.7 · stage 6: 9.2.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Alune, over 5,299 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.

Others holding itAvg PlaceShare of games
Nobody else#3.6840%
1 other player#3.8741%
2 or more#4.1519%

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
AluneSpear of Shojin#3.65-0.204,064
AluneJeweled Gauntlet#3.64-0.214,013
AluneArchangel's Staff#3.45-0.392,258

Full builds

The carries’ most played three-item builds this patch, with the placement of the games they were built in.

ChampionBuildAvg PlaceGames
AluneJeweled GauntletJeweled GauntletNashor's ToothNashor's ToothSpear of ShojinSpear of Shojin#3.70105
AluneArchangel's StaffArchangel's StaffJeweled GauntletJeweled GauntletSpear of ShojinSpear of Shojin#3.3487

Components to hold Needlessly Large Rod, Sparring Gloves, Recurve Bow, Giant's Belt, B.F. Sword, Tear of the Goddess

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.

AddsLeaves outAvg PlaceGames
Ashe, Morgana, SivirAphelios, Ivern, Maokai3.072,599
Elder DragonAphelios, Maokai3.921,108
Elder Dragon, MorganaAphelios, Hecarim, Maokai3.30798
Fiddlesticks, LeBlanc, Ornn, XayahAphelios, Ivern, Lux, Maokai4.27691
GnarIvern, Maokai3.87663

…and 63 smaller versions, 5,190 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.

Vanguard4next 6Lunar2next 3Attuned1Emerald Aspect1Elderwood1next 3Invoker1next 2Ravager1next 2Riftbeast1next 3Spellweaver1next 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
Coven33.2943542.8030852.90138
Elderwood33.812,40854.0062273.9787
Executioner23.8242232.8790
Fae23.9150543.12166
Flora Fatalis14.251,52623.81296
Hunter23.991,04733.80169
Inferno23.7665334.11298
Invoker23.514,37733.4284642.9726352.4090
Juggernaut23.993,25844.1594
Lunar24.065,59133.922,96643.422,32553.142,399
Primal24.151,20443.44185
Rapidfire23.853,05833.7739643.2970
Ravager23.601,86843.8790
Riftbeast33.954,85354.9762
Rival13.458983.2081
Spellweaver23.534,68443.9846964.0969
Vanguard24.643,28543.769,99763.261,672

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+3,600#3.8460.6%22.0%
All ranks5,304#3.8560.6%21.8%

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.