TFT CODEX

Vanguard Kha'Zix Defender

3-cost reroll at level 7Carried by Kha'Zix

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

—Tier
#4.99Avg Place
39.4%Top 4 %
9.2%Win %
0.1%Play Rate
710Games

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.

Kha'Zix

Game plan

How it’s played
3-cost reroll at level 7 Rolls at level 7 until its 3-costs are 3-starred: Kha'Zix.
Roll
Level 7 around 4-1: about 57 rolls (114 gold) to 3-star Kha'Zix; about 75 if three copies of each are on other boards. model
Build
Kha'Zix Kha'Zix Edge of NightHand Of JusticeRabadon's Deathcap Edge of Night, Hand Of Justice, Rabadon's Deathcap · 170 games · #4.74
Components
Needlessly Large RodNeedlessly Large Rod ×2 · B.F. SwordB.F. Sword · Chain VestChain Vest · Tear of the GoddessTear of the Goddess · Sparring GlovesSparring Gloves
Contested?
Others holding Kha'Zix: nobody else: #4.74 · 1 other: #5.31 · 2+ others: #5.34
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.4 · stage 5: 7.6 · stage 6: 8.3
Games end
Lv 7 36% · Lv 8 43% · Lv 9 18%

Final board

The whole board at level 8, 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.

4Aphelios★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Kraken's Fury
  • Infinity Edge
4Ezreal★★
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Red Buff
3Diana★★
3Fiddlesticks★★
3Hecarim★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
  • Spirit Visage
3Kha'Zix★★★
  • Hand Of Justice
  • Edge of Night
  • Rabadon's Deathcap
carry
4Lilliaflex
1Xayahflex

Also in the flex slots Soraka

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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 7 and up are measured: the boards its games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days (3,647 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.

736%843%918%103%
Lv 4planOrnnXayahLeBlancFiddlesticksElderwood 3Defender 2Spellweaver 2Flora Fatalis 1Kha'Zix’s items on Fiddlesticks
Lv 5planOrnnXayahFiddlesticksLeBlancRakanElderwood 3Defender 2Fae 2Spellweaver 2Flora Fatalis 1Kha'Zix’s items on Fiddlesticks
Lv 6realHecarimDianaOrnnKha'ZixFiddlesticksXayah− LeBlanc, Rakan
Lv 736%ApheliosEzrealDianaFiddlesticksHecarimKha'ZixXayah− Ornn
Lv 843%ApheliosEzrealLilliaDianaFiddlesticksHecarimKha'ZixXayah
Lv 918%ApheliosEzrealLilliaDianaFiddlesticksHecarimKha'ZixXayahSoraka

3★ targets Kha'Zix46% Hecarim30% Diana20%

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.4 · stage 5: 7.6 · stage 6: 8.3.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Kha'Zix, over 1,166 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#4.7458%
1 other player#5.3137%
2 or more#5.346%

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
Kha'ZixHand Of Justice#4.54-0.442,297
Kha'ZixEdge of Night#4.58-0.401,657
Kha'ZixRabadon's Deathcap#4.54-0.441,211

Full builds

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

ChampionBuildAvg PlaceGames
Kha'ZixEdge of NightEdge of NightHand Of JusticeHand Of JusticeRabadon's DeathcapRabadon's Deathcap#4.74170
Kha'ZixEdge of NightEdge of NightHand Of JusticeHand Of JusticeJeweled GauntletJeweled Gauntlet#4.7953
Kha'ZixHand Of JusticeHand Of JusticeHand Of JusticeHand Of JusticeRabadon's DeathcapRabadon's Deathcap#4.4551

Components to hold Needlessly Large Rod ×2, B.F. Sword, Chain Vest, Tear of the Goddess, Sparring Gloves

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
RakanTaric, Xayah5.37632
KennenFiddlesticks, Taric4.97556
SorakaKha'Zix, Taric5.40418
Rengar, TristanaAphelios, Fiddlesticks, Taric5.85236
Caitlyn, Rammus, Rengar, TristanaAphelios, Ezreal, Fiddlesticks, Kha'Zix, Taric, Xayah6.14128

…and 10 smaller versions, 472 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.

Lunar2next 3Vanguard2next 4Flora Fatalis1next 2Rival1next 2Elderwood2next 3Defender1next 2Executioner1next 2Rapidfire1next 2Ravager1next 2Spellweaver1next 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
Defender24.721,83044.98119
Elderwood34.772,41355.27329
Executioner25.061,59734.0382243.51348
Fae25.171,07144.60282
Flora Fatalis14.971,42824.441,064
Lunar24.812,29334.1839344.2273
Rapidfire24.681,73634.0149843.4174
Ravager24.402,21943.7166
Rival14.602,1075.01654
Spellweaver23.941,48843.0874
Vanguard24.963,17444.27293

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+710#4.9939.4%9.2%
All ranks1,167#4.9840.0%8.6%

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.

CompTierShared unitsAvg PlaceGames
Elderwood Kha'Zix & HecarimA5#4.35101,846
Rival Kha'Zix & Rengar—5#4.07388
Spellweaver Kha'Zix—5#4.65104
Vanguard Kha'Zix—4#5.021,454
Ravager Kha'Zix & Hecarim—4#5.201,039
Vanguard Kha'Zix & Aphelios—4#5.45839
Rival Rengar & Kha'Zix Ravager—4#6.09701
Elderwood Aphelios Lunar Fae—4#4.87377

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.