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Vanguard Draven & Elder Dragon

Also called Draven Elder Dragon Fast 9 · Vanguard Fast 9

Fast 9Carried by Draven & Elder Dragon

Teamfight Tactics Set 18·Patch 18.5·Ranked games, Diamond+, last 7 days·Updated 29 Oct 2026, 17:18 UTC·Difficulty Medium

No tier yet Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 64 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.

S comps in Diamond+ now: Riftbeast Elder Dragon (same carry), Riftbeast Elder Dragon & Draven (same carry). Every grade: the tier list.

Final board

The board at level 9, 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.

5Draven★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Kraken's Fury
  • Infinity Edge
carry
5Elder Dragontakes 2 team slots★
  • Infinity Edge
  • Sterak's Gage
  • Deathblade
carry
5Kennen★
4Amumu★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Spirit Visage
  • Warmog's Armor
4Sentinel★
  • Protector's Vow
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
3Diana★★
3Vi★★
5Ivernflex

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Draven

How to play this

Level
Level to 9. Its games also end at level 8 (16%) and level 10 (5%). Level 9 around 5-1: about 33 rolls (66 gold) to 2-star Draven; about 54 if three copies of each are on other boards. model Finishes at level 8.9 on average. Boards at its levels average 3.90 across every comp; this one averages 5.24, 1.34 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
Carries

Draven 3★ on 0% of boards

Guinsoo's RagebladeKraken's FuryInfinity Edge Guinsoo's Rageblade, Kraken's Fury, Infinity Edge

Elder Dragon 3★ on 0% of boards

Infinity EdgeSterak's GageDeathblade Infinity Edge, Sterak's Gage, Deathblade

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 Akali, Rakan, Varus and Diana.

Draven's items go on Varus until Draven comes in at level 9.

Elder Dragon's items go on Diana until Elder Dragon comes in at level 9.

Stage 3 Level 6 plan

Add Scuttlecrab and Vi.

Stage 5 Level 9 measured

Its players average 8.8 when they go out in stage 5.

Add Draven, Elder Dragon, Ivern, Kennen, Amumu and Sentinel; sell Akali, Rakan, Varus and Scuttlecrab.

80% of its games end at level 9.

Stage 6 Level 9 measured

Its players average 9.1 when they go out in stage 6.

Its games end around round 5-5 on average, with 7 gold left.

Which version?

Four comps play Vanguard around Draven. They share the two below; the units only one of them plays tell you which one you are on.

Every version plays
Sentinelor Draven
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No tier yetVanguard Draven & Elder Dragon
— avg— top 464 gamesFast 9
Carried by Draven & Elder Dragon
Only this one plays
AmumuElder DragonKennen

Ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+. A dashed portrait is a flex slot: many of its games play another unit there.

No tier yet fewer than 400 games in 7 days   Not graded played too rarely to grade

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 9 up it is measured over 234 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

816%980%105%
Lv 4planAkaliRakanVarusDiana222Draven’s items on VarusElder Dragon’s items on Diana
Lv 5planAkaliRakanVarusScuttlecrabDianaAddedScuttlecrab2222Draven’s items on VarusElder Dragon’s items on Diana
Lv 6planAkaliRakanVarusScuttlecrabDianaViAddedVi3222Draven’s items on VarusElder Dragon’s items on Vi
Lv 7planAkaliRakanVarusScuttlecrabDianaViAmumuAddedAmumu4322Draven’s items on VarusElder Dragon’s items on Amumu
Lv 8planDianaViAmumuSentinelAkaliVarusRakanScuttlecrabAddedSentinel4332Draven’s items on VarusElder Dragon’s items on Sentinel
Lv 980%DravenElder Dragon2IvernKennenAmumuSentinelDianaViAddedDravenElder Dragon2IvernKennenSoldAkaliVarusRakanScuttlecrab1113222

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

How these rows are made

Level 9 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. A 2 on a portrait: that unit takes two team slots.

Lv 9Elder Dragon2IvernAmumuApheliosSentinelDianaViVarus4.15avg place40 gamesPlaysApheliosVarusInstead ofDravenKennen
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: Draven is built for ability power here (166 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 8.89 (234)

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

By ruleWrong damage type: Draven is built for ability power here (166 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 Draven & Elder Dragon in TFT Set 18?

Fast 9. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.1 on average. Its games end most often at level 9 (80%).

What items does Draven need?

On its final board Draven holds Guinsoo's Rageblade, Kraken's Fury and Infinity Edge.

Is Vanguard Draven & Elder Dragon good in patch 18.5?

Not graded yet: 76 games at all ranks in the last 7 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #5.17.

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.

Apex Predator1Bounty Seeker1Greenfather1Riftbeast3next 5Inferno2next 3Juggernaut2next 4Vanguard2next 4

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+64#5.2339.1%6.2%
All ranks76#5.1739.5%6.6%

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.