TFT CODEX

Vanguard Maokai

Fast 9Carried by Maokai

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

—Tier
—Avg Place
—Top 4 %
—Win %
0.0%Play Rate
—Games

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.

Maokai

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.4 on average.
Roll
Level 9 around 5-1: about 33 rolls (66 gold) to 2-star Maokai; about 54 if three copies of each are on other boards. model
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 5: 9.0 · stage 6: 9.4
Games end
Lv 8 6% · Lv 9 72% · Lv 10 22%

Final board

The whole board at level 9, 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

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.

5Gnar★
5Ivern★
5Kennen★
  • Thief's Gloves
  • Edge of Night
5Maokai★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
  • Spirit Visage
carry
5Taric★
4Sentinel★
4Amumuflex
4Apheliosflex
4Zyraflex

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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 9 and up are measured: the boards its games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days (216 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.

86%972%1022%
Lv 4planRakanYorickScuttlecrabSejuaniJuggernaut 4Maokai’s items on Sejuani
Lv 5planRakanYorickScuttlecrabSejuaniMama BeakJuggernaut 4Summoner 2Maokai’s items on Sejuani
Lv 6planRakanVarusYorickScuttlecrabSejuaniMama BeakJuggernaut 4Rapidfire 2Summoner 2Maokai’s items on Sejuani
Lv 7planRakanYorickScuttlecrabSejuaniMama BeakSentinelVarusJuggernaut 4Riftbeast 3Rapidfire 2Summoner 2Vanguard 2Maokai’s items on Sejuani
Lv 8planApheliosSentinelZyraRakanYorickScuttlecrabSejuaniMama Beak− VarusSummoner 3Juggernaut 4Riftbeast 3Rapidfire 2Vanguard 2Maokai’s items on Sejuani
Lv 972%GnarIvernKennenMaokaiTaricApheliosSentinelAmumuZyra+1 open− Rakan, Yorick, Scuttlecrab, Sejuani, Mama Beak

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

Level when its players go out — stage 5: 9.0 · stage 6: 9.4.

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
MaokaiGargoyle Stoneplate#4.56-0.8475
MaokaiWarmogs Armor#4.36-1.0455
MaokaiSpirit Visage#4.76-0.6442

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
Pebbles, SorakaKennen, Kobuko, Zyra5.8168

Traits

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

Vanguard2next 4Emerald Aspect1Greenfather1Old Growth1Brawler1next 2Elderwood1next 3Executioner1next 2Inferno1next 2Invoker1next 2Juggernaut1next 2Riftbeast1next 3Sprykin1next 3

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+39#5.8223.1%5.1%
All ranks60#5.4030.0%11.7%

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
Riftbeast Elder Dragon & DravenS5#4.03126,543
Elderwood Draven & MaokaiS5#4.2086,067
Juggernaut Inferno—5#4.691,906
Executioner Lunar—4#4.21643
Inferno Juggernaut Defender—4#4.07571
Riftbeast Elder Dragon Apex Predator—4#4.34540
Vanguard Draven—4#4.75315
Elderwood Alune—4#3.78287

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.