Vanguard

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Updated 24 Sep 2026, 06:18 UTC · Patch 18.3

Open in BuilderThe core, at the star level it was measured at and with the carry’s items. Where the units stand is yours to set.

Final board

The core — the units on most of this family’s boards — at the star level and with the items they were measured holding. Flex slots sit under it.

4Sentinel★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Protectors Vow

3Diana★★

3Hecarim★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor

2Elise★★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Guinsoos Rageblade
• Warmogs Armor

1Rakan★★

Flex Ashe, Caitlyn, Sivir, Taric, Tristana

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How it’s played

Where this comp’s games end, and its board at each of those levels — a unit marked + is new since the level above. All ranks, the last 14 days: 8,404 games. Riot’s match data keeps only the board a game ended on, so there is no stage-by-stage roll plan here.

Lv 713%

Lv 836%− Tristana, Caitlyn

Lv 940%

Lv 107%

3★ targets Elise32% Caitlyn29%

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.

…and 43 smaller versions, 3,644 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.

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
Caitlyn	Guinsoos Rageblade	#4.61	-0.55	2,791
Elise	Gargoyle Stoneplate	#4.55	-0.61	1,947
Caitlyn	Krakens Fury	#4.49	-0.67	1,795

Traits

Active on the core board, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

Vanguard5next 6Coven1next 3Elderwood1next 3Fae1next 2Invoker1next 2Juggernaut1next 2Lunar1next 2Ravager1next 2Riftbeast1next 3

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.

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.

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.

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.