Vanguard Aphelios (fi34kn)

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.1 on average.

Play it when

you hold Recurve Bow and B.F. Sword, and nobody else is on Aphelios (it placed #5.38 then, #5.88 against two or more)

Roll

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

Build

Aphelios Guinsoo's Rageblade, Infinity Edge, Kraken's Fury · 127 games · #5.31

Components

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

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.0 · stage 5: 8.4 · stage 6: 9.1

Games end

Lv 8 47% · Lv 9 33% · Lv 10 13%

Vs its level

Finishes at level 8.5 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.28 across every comp; this one averages 5.62, 1.34 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.

4Aphelios★★

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

carry

3Diana★★

1Rakan★★

or

• Kog'Maw
• Sentinel
• Hecarim

4Lilliaflex

4Nidaleeflex

or

• Kha'Zix
• Azir
• Mama Beak

3Fiddlesticksflex

3Viflex

1Varusflex

or

• Xayah

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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 4,441 games; below that it is planned.

Lv 4plan222Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 5planAdded322Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 6planAdded3222Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 77%AddedSold12221

Lv 847%AddedSold22222221

Lv 933%AddedSold1222222221

Lv 1013%AddedSold1322222221

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 2,908 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, all ranks.

Champion	Item	Avg Place	vs comp	Games
Aphelios	Guinsoo's Rageblade	#5.63	+0.02	2,004
Aphelios	Kraken's Fury	#5.44	-0.17	1,331
Aphelios	Infinity Edge	#5.44	-0.17	1,152

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	#5.31	127
Aphelios	DeathbladeGuinsoo's RagebladeKraken's Fury	#5.67	114
Aphelios	DeathbladeGuinsoo's RagebladeInfinity Edge	#4.95	57

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 86.11avg place396 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 86.21avg place395 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 95.41avg place305 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 94.28avg place227 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 86.13avg place182 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.

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. #1AF Doréto#FRAUDChallenger · EUW · 1,614 LP · level 10 · 2026-09-21
2. #7たろうのTFT大学#ゆにばChallenger · JP · 1,436 LP · level 8 · out at 5-1 · 2026-09-25

Traits

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

Defender2next 4Fae2next 4Juggernaut2next 4Lunar2next 3Primal2next 4Rapidfire2next 3Vanguard2next 4Flora Fatalis1next 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.

Trait	Placement at each tier
Fae	25.472,17344.55252
Flora Fatalis	15.582,30924.81478
Juggernaut	25.473,03344.84219
Lunar	25.702,99334.5856544.58141
Primal	25.622,36845.13137
Rapidfire	25.432,41334.7735644.1061
Vanguard	25.513,35244.87145

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+	1,094	#5.62	29.2%	8.0%
All ranks	1,785	#5.61	29.7%	8.2%

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.

5.4927

5.5428

5.6029

5.6230

5.641

5.752