Vanguard Aphelios

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.5 on average.

Play it when

you hold Recurve Bow and B.F. Sword

Roll

Level 8 around 4-2: about 22 rolls (44 gold) to 2-star Aphelios; about 33 if three copies of each are on other boards. model

Build

Aphelios Guinsoo's Rageblade, Infinity Edge, Kraken's Fury · 96 games · #4.91

Components

Recurve Bow ×2 · B.F. Sword · Needlessly Large Rod · Negatron Cloak · Sparring Gloves

Contested?

Others holding Aphelios: nobody else: #5.19 · 1 other: #5.16 · 2+ others: #5.30

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.1 · stage 5: 8.2 · stage 6: 8.5

Games end

Lv 8 70% · Lv 9 26% · Lv 10 2%

Vs its level

Finishes at level 8.3 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.55 across every comp; this one averages 5.17, 0.62 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.

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Final board

The whole board at level 8, where most of its games end. A dashed slot is one its games fill differently; an open one, no unit holds on a quarter of them. Under a unit, or: who its games play there instead.

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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. Dashed level buttons are planned, the rest measured; the gold one adds the champion that placed best there.

4Aphelios★★

• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Infinity Edge
• Kraken's Fury

carry

4Sentinel★★

• Protector's Vow
• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmog's Armor

3Diana★★

3Mama Beak★★

or

• Amumu

4Bramblebackflex

or

• Sett

4Zyraflex

or

• Fiddlesticks

3Kog'Mawflex

or

• Malphite
• Rek'Sai

3Krugflex

or

• Morgana
• Lillia
• Hecarim

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How it’s played

The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 8 up it is measured over 2,870 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

Lv 4plan32Aphelios’s items on Murkwolf

Lv 5planAdded42Aphelios’s items on Murkwolf

Lv 6planAdded422Aphelios’s items on Murkwolf

Lv 7realAddedSold133222

Lv 870%AddedSold114222222

Lv 926%Added1142222221

Lv 10bestAdded1143222221The 10th championall: #2.12 · 30% won · 834 gamesHecarim#1.9139% won · 213Taric#1.9538% won · 271Morgana#1.9239% won · 64Amumu#2.1824% won · 527 · most played

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

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Aphelios, over 1,125 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.

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 at all ranks over the last 14 days.

Champion	Item	Avg Place	vs comp	Games
Aphelios	Guinsoo's Rageblade	#5.25	+0.04	1,596
Aphelios	Infinity Edge	#5.19	-0.02	1,295
Aphelios	Kraken's Fury	#4.98	-0.24	1,153

Full builds

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

Champion	Build	Avg Place	Games
Aphelios	Guinsoo's RagebladeInfinity EdgeKraken's Fury	#4.91	96
Aphelios	DeathbladeGuinsoo's RagebladeKraken's Fury	#4.12	40
Aphelios	Guinsoo's RagebladeInfinity EdgeLast Whisper	#5.13	38

Components to hold Recurve Bow ×2, B.F. Sword, Needlessly Large Rod, Negatron Cloak, Sparring Gloves

Variations

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 84.76avg place491 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 85.36avg place406 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 85.46avg place278 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 86.25avg place167 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 86.27avg place78 gamesPlaysInstead of

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 4 averages 4.55 here, against 5.34 at Lunar 2 (2224 boards)

  Sun and MoonSun and Moon+

• Flora Fatalis 2 averages 5.23 here, against 5.59 at Flora Fatalis 1 (564 boards)

  Consuming Flora

• Rapidfire 4 averages 4.34 here, against 5.18 at Rapidfire 2 (2163 boards)

  U.R.F

By ruleSuits this carry Aphelios is built for attack damage here (2454 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier BladesHold the LineSoul AwakeningCybernetic ImplantsDouble TroubleEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTTons of Stats!Focused Fire

1 more

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 8.28 (2870)

Commerce CoreInvested+Invested++Prismatic TicketUpward MobilityCalculated LossCognitive OverloadEpic RolldownEpochEpoch+Trade SectorTrade Sector+

3 more

Crafted CraftingPatience Is A VirtueRecombobulator

By ruleWrong damage type Aphelios is built for attack damage here (2454 boards)

Deadlier CapsDark RitualSeraphim's Staff

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.

More about this comp

At the top of the ladder

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

1. #3whyyoumadpro#EUWChallenger · EUW · 1,641 LP · level 8 · out at 6-1 · 2026-10-10
2. #3shain22#EUWChallenger · EUW · 1,500 LP · level 8 · out at 6-1 · 2026-10-07
3. #4TTV KatsutaxD#TFTChallenger · EUW · 1,734 LP · level 8 · out at 6-1 · 2026-10-05

Traits

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

Caustic1Thornmaiden1Riftbeast4next 5Invoker2next 3Lunar2next 3Rapidfire2next 3Ravager2next 4Summoner2next 3Vanguard2next 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.

Trait	Placement at each tier
Invoker	25.111,46335.27242
Lunar	25.342,09634.6439544.55128
Rapidfire	25.182,09234.9834544.3471
Summoner	25.141,66135.0199
Vanguard	25.232,37044.86325

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.

Bracket	Games	Avg Place	Top 4 %	Win %
Diamond+	859	#5.17	37.1%	3.5%
All ranks	1,125	#5.22	36.4%	3.8%

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.

5.138

5.229

5.1610

5.3511

5.1912

5.2013

Also played

Families sharing at least 4 core units with this one — the same board taken a different way.

Comp	Tier	Shared units	Avg Place	Games
Rapidfire Aphelios & Brambleback	A	4	#4.39	25,957
Riftbeast Aphelios & Brambleback	—	4	#4.65	16,316
Rapidfire Aphelios Lunar	—	4	#5.25	1,087
Rapidfire Aphelios Vanguard Lunar	—	4	#5.37	65
Riftbeast Sentinel & Aphelios Summoner	—	4	#6.77	64
Riftbeast Aphelios & Brambleback Lunar	—	4	#4.44	55
Vanguard Aphelios Juggernaut Lunar	—	4	#4.80	51