Vanguard Kha'Zix (bforbb)
Level 8ConsistentCarried by Kha'ZixA Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.5 ranked games.
Difficulty Medium 3-stars a 3-cost on 57% of its boards
Updated 21 Oct 2026, 06:18 UTC · ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+ · Patch 18.5
Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 198 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.
Too few games to grade: 305 at all ranks in the last 7 days, and a grade needs 400.
Which version?
Five comps play Vanguard around Kha'Zix; the biggest four are compared here. They share the three below; the units only one of them plays tell you which one you are on.
1 smaller version
- Vanguard Kha'Zix with SorakaNo tier yet114 games
Five comps play Vanguard around Kha'Zix; the biggest four are compared here. They share the three below; the units only one of them plays tell you which one you are on.
1 smaller version
- Vanguard Kha'Zix with SorakaNo tier yet157 games
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 this week Not graded played too rarely to grade
When
Take it when you hold Needlessly Large Rod and Sparring Gloves
Others on Kha'Zix in the lobby, over 700 games of this patch at all ranks.
Slam order our rule
First Rabadon's Deathcap (Needlessly Large Rod + Needlessly Large Rod)
Of Kha'Zix's most played build, the item its boards placed best with: #5.28 over 287 boards.
Then:
Sparring Gloves ×2,
Tear of the Goddess ×2
Kha'Zix's items go on Karma until Kha'Zix comes in at level 6. plan
Level plan
- Stage 2 Lv 4 plan
- Stage 3 Lv 6 plan
- Stage 4 Lv 7.2 measured
- Stage 5 Lv 7.5 measured
- Stage 6 Lv 7.9 measured
Its games end at Lv 7 49% · Lv 8 44% · Lv 9 7%
Carries
Kha'Zix 3★ on 42% of boards
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Hand Of Justice, Hand Of Justice, Rabadon's Deathcap
#5.52 over 50 games

Game plan
- How it’s played
- Level 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 7.9 on average.
- Play it when
- you hold Needlessly Large Rod and Sparring Gloves
- Build
Kha'Zix 

Hand Of Justice, Hand Of Justice, Rabadon's Deathcap · 50 games · #5.52- Components
Needlessly Large Rod ×2 ·
Sparring Gloves ×2 ·
Tear of the Goddess ×2- Contested?
- Others holding Kha'Zix: nobody else: #5.28 · 1 other: #5.35
- Pace
- Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.2 · stage 5: 7.5 · stage 6: 7.9
- Games end
- Lv 7 49% · Lv 8 44% · Lv 9 7%
- Vs its level
- Finishes at level 7.6 on average. Boards at its levels average 5.14 across every comp; this one averages 5.17, 0.03 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.Finishes at level 7.6 on average. Boards at its levels average 5.08 across every comp; this one averages 5.27, 0.19 worse. 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, drawn from its games at all ranks over the last 14 days. 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.
Diana★★
Ionic Spark
Hand Of Justice
Hecarim★★
Gargoyle Stoneplate
Warmog's Armor
Spirit Visage
Kha'Zix★★
Hand Of Justice
Rabadon's Deathcap
Edge of Night
Bramblebackflex
Sentinelflex
Vi
Sorakaflex
Mama Beak
Fiddlesticksflex
Azir
Paste it into the game’s Team Planner to have these champions marked in your shop.
Stage by stage
What to do at each stage, from the numbers below: stages 2 and 3 are our plan, 4 to 6 the level its players were measured at.
Stage 2 Level 4 plan
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Play Karma, Rakan, Elise and Fiddlesticks.
Kha'Zix's items go on Karma until Kha'Zix comes in at level 6.
Stage 3 Level 6 plan
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Add Kha'Zix and Camille.
Stage 4 Level 7 measured
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Its players average 7.2 when they go out in stage 4.
Add Soraka, Diana and Hecarim; sell Karma, Rakan, Elise and Camille.
3★ targets: Kha'Zix 42%
49% of its games end at level 7.
Stage 5 Level 7 measured
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Its players average 7.5 when they go out in stage 5.
Stage 6 Level 8 measured
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Its players average 7.9 when they go out in stage 6.
Add Brambleback, Sentinel and Taric; sell Soraka and Fiddlesticks.
Fill the last three slots: Aphelios + Murkwolf + Taric #4.74 (7% won, 57 games), Aphelios + Elise + Murkwolf #4.87 (0% won, 39 games); all level-8 boards #4.71.
44% of its games end at level 8.
Its games end around round 5-5 on average, with 8 gold left.
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 696 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.
3★ targets
Kha'Zix42%
How these rows are made
Level 7 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.
Contested?
How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Kha'Zix, over 700 games of this patch at all ranks. 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 | #5.28 | 67% |
| 1 other player | #5.35 | 29% |
Questions
What people search for about this comp, answered from the numbers on this page.
How do you play Vanguard Kha'Zix (bforbb) in TFT Set 18?
Level 8. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 7.9 on average. Its games end most often at level 7 (49%).
What items does Kha'Zix need?
Its most played build this patch is Hand Of Justice, Hand Of Justice and Rabadon's Deathcap: #5.52 over 50 games.
Is Vanguard Kha'Zix (bforbb) good in patch 18.5?
Not graded yet: 305 games at all ranks in the last 7 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #5.27.
Is Vanguard Kha'Zix (bforbb) contested?
Contest costs it little: with nobody else on Kha'Zix it placed #5.28 (67% of games), with one other #5.35 (29%), over 700 games of this patch at all ranks.
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 at all ranks over the last 14 days.
| Champion | Item | Avg Place | vs comp | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #5.29 | +0.02 | 508 | ||
| #5.28 | +0.01 | 287 | ||
| #5.09 | -0.18 | 172 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #5.52 | 50 | ||
| #4.70 | 46 | ||
| #5.00 | 33 |
Components to hold Needlessly Large Rod ×2, Sparring Gloves ×2, Tear of the Goddess ×2
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.
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.
MeasuredThe comp’s own placement at a trait’s levels, beside the augments that give the trait.
#4.83
Flora Fatalis 1: averages 4.83 here, against 5.61 at Flora Fatalis 2 (436 boards)
Reroll and economy
By ruleSuits this comp: it 3-stars a 3-cost in 57% of its boards (696)
3 more
AP carry
By ruleSuits this carry: Kha'Zix is built for ability power here (549 boards)
1 more
Works against it: Wrong damage type (3)
By ruleWrong damage type: Kha'Zix is built for ability power here (549 boards)
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.
- #6Carpe Diem#0124Challenger · KR · 1,570 LP · level 7 · out at 5-3 · 2026-10-08
Traits
Active on the final board above, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.
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 |
|---|---|
| Flora Fatalis | 14.839525.61341 |
| Ravager | 25.7029144.67288 |
| Vanguard | 25.5638944.86256 |
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 % |
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| Diamond+ | 198 | #5.16 | 35.9% | 9.1% |
| All ranks | 305 | #5.27 | 34.1% | 7.2% |
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.