Vanguard Kha'Zix & Hecarim Defender
3-cost reroll at level 8High Win %Carried by Kha'Zix & Hecarim
Updated 05 Oct 2026, 08:18 UTC · Patch 18.3
Game plan
- How it’s played
- 3-cost reroll at level 8 Rolls at level 8 until its 3-costs are 3-starred: Kha'Zix, Hecarim.
- Play it when
- you hold Needlessly Large Rod and B.F. Sword, and nobody else is on Kha'Zix or Hecarim (it placed #4.28 then, #4.72 against two or more)
- Roll
- Level 8 around 4-2: about 90 rolls (180 gold) to 3-star Kha'Zix, Hecarim; about 117 if three copies of each are on other boards. model
- Build
Kha'Zix 
Edge of Night, Hand Of Justice, Rabadon's Deathcap · 62 games · #4.19- Components
Needlessly Large Rod ×2 · 
B.F. Sword · 
Chain Vest · 
Sparring Gloves · 
Tear of the Goddess- Pace
- Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.2 · stage 5: 7.3 · stage 6: 8.2
- Games end
- Lv 7 44% · Lv 8 35% · Lv 9 19%
- Vs its level
- Finishes at level 8.0 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.89 across every comp; this one averages 4.00, 0.89 better. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.Finishes at level 8.0 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.90 across every comp; this one averages 4.28, 0.62 better. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
Final board
The whole board at level 7, 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.
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.
Azir★★- Guinsoo's Rageblade
- Hextech Gunblade
- Archangel's Staff
Diana★★- Ionic Spark
- Hand Of Justice
- Jeweled Gauntlet
Fiddlesticks★★Hecarim★★★- Gargoyle Stoneplate
- Warmogs Armor
- Spirit Visage
Kha'Zix★★★- Hand Of Justice
- Edge of Night
- Rabadon's Deathcap
Ornn★★Warwickflex- Yorick
Paste it into the game’s Team Planner to have these champions marked in your shop.
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 453 games; below that it is planned.
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2Hecarim’s items on YorickKha'Zix’s items on Diana
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2222Hecarim’s items on YorickKha'Zix’s items on DianaAdded322
22Hecarim’s items on YorickKha'Zix’s items on DianaAddedSold
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Added2114332The 10th championall: #1.63 · 55% won · 259 gamesSentinel#1.6060% won · 53
Aphelios#1.6254% won · 136
Kennen#1.6354% won · 673★ targets Kha'Zix67% Hecarim48% Diana29%
How these rows are made
Level 7 and up are the boards this comp’s games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days. 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 this patch, 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.
Contested?
How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Kha'Zix or Hecarim, over 357 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 it | Avg Place | Share of games |
|---|---|---|
| Nobody else | #4.28 | 37% |
| 1 other player | #4.53 | 39% |
| 2 or more | #4.72 | 24% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kha'Zix | Hand Of Justice | #4.17 | -0.10 | 411 |
| Kha'Zix | Edge of Night | #4.32 | +0.05 | 253 |
| Kha'Zix | Rabadon's Deathcap | #4.30 | +0.02 | 203 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kha'Zix | Edge of NightHand Of JusticeRabadon's Deathcap | #4.19 | 62 |
| Kha'Zix | Hand Of JusticeHand Of JusticeRabadon's Deathcap | #4.78 | 27 |
Components to hold Needlessly Large Rod ×2, B.F. Sword, Chain Vest, Sparring Gloves, Tear of the Goddess
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.
5.98avg place102 gamesPlaysInstead ofAugments 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.
Flora Fatalis 2 averages 3.00 here, against 4.65 at Flora Fatalis 1 (298 boards)
Consuming Flora
By ruleSuits this comp it 3-stars a 3-cost in 80% of its boards (453)
Commerce Core
Invested+
Invested++
Prismatic Ticket
Upward Mobility
Cognitive Overload
Epic Rolldown
Epoch
Epoch+
Trade Sector
Trade Sector+
Crafted Crafting2 more
Patience Is A Virtue
RecombobulatorRiot’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.
- #1Ri Le#2406Challenger · VN · 1,534 LP · level 9 · 2026-09-22
- #2Enif#SEAChallenger · SEA · 1,554 LP · level 8 · out at 6-5 · 2026-09-24
- #2RF N6M#139Challenger · VN · 1,623 LP · level 8 · out at 6-5 · 2026-09-22
- #4FuuTime#xddChallenger · SEA · 1,945 LP · level 7 · out at 6-1 · 2026-09-23
Traits
Active on the core board, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.
Defender2next 4Vanguard2next 4Flora Fatalis1next 2Rival1next 2What 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 |
|---|---|
| Flora Fatalis | 14.6518523.00113 |
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+ | 93 | #4.00 | 63.4% | 15.0% |
| All ranks | 130 | #4.28 | 56.1% | 13.1% |
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.
| Comp | Tier | Shared units | Avg Place | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elderwood Kha'Zix & Hecarim | A | 5 | #4.29 | 96,869 |
| Fae Aphelios & Kha'Zix | D | 4 | #5.68 | 6,327 |
| Vanguard Kha'Zix | — | 4 | #5.08 | 1,736 |
| Vanguard Kha'Zix Flora Fatalis | — | 4 | #6.09 | 1,261 |
| Vanguard Kha'Zix & Hecarim | — | 4 | #5.18 | 292 |
| Executioner Kha'Zix | — | 4 | #4.48 | 209 |
| Ravager Kha'Zix & Hecarim | — | 4 | #5.48 | 92 |
| Defender Kha'Zix & Hecarim | — | 4 | #4.76 | 71 |