What tier is Primal Aphelios on TFT Set 18?

Primal Aphelios is currently Tier S on TFT Set 18, with a 3.78 average placement and 67% top 4 rate over 162 real ranked games analyzed.

TFT Set 18

Primal Aphelios= 0.06

Level 9

Placement

3.78

Top 4

67%

Contest.

Full composition

Traits

Adaptor 2/3

Primal 2/4

Invoker 2/3

Rapidfire 2/3

Juggernaut 2/4

Inferno 2/3

Vanguard 2/4

Lunar 2/3

Avatar 1

Caustic 1

Ravager 1/2

Riftbeast 1/3

Item combos — main carries (top 10)

Combo	Avg placement
	3.50

Aphelios

Combo	Avg placement
	3.38
	4.33
	2.78
	3.29
	3.71
	1.83
	3.67
	2.50
	2.25
	3.75

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Matchups vs

vs Greenfather Ezreal 60 encounters 53%

vs Battlemage Sivir 35 encounters 60%

vs Solar Kayle 34 encounters 71%

vs Riftbeast Pebbles 34 encounters 56%

vs Summoner Zyra 34 encounters 59%

vs Executioner Soraka 31 encounters 42%

vs Defender Cassiopeia 30 encounters 57%

vs Summoner Soraka 25 encounters 84%

vs Greenfather Amumu 25 encounters 56%

vs Emerald Ahri 25 encounters 60%

vs Riftbeast Cinderling 23 encounters 52%

vs Invoker Morgana 19 encounters 84%

vs Battlemage Nidalee 19 encounters 58%

vs Fae Tristana 18 encounters 61%

vs Rival Rengar 15 encounters 60%

vs Caustic Aphelios 15 encounters 40%

vs Executioner Zyra 15 encounters 67%

vs Caustic Nidalee 15 encounters 80%

vs Greenfather Sentinel 14 encounters 43%

vs Maokai_UniqueTrait Sivir 14 encounters 57%

Board variants

Baseline

2.98 avg placement

→

2.14 avg placement

→

2.80 avg placement

Real versions of this comp's final board: which exact group of champions shows up together, how often, and the average placement of those games. Not a game-by-game history (Riot only exposes the end-of-game board, never how it got there): a comparison of builds, not a timeline.

Board add-ons (9th/10th unit)

Base board — 9 units 2.98 avg placement · 47 games

+1 unit (10 total)

Alune 2.80 avg placement · 5 games

The main board above stops at 9 units: reaching a 10th slot needs level 10, which on its own already correlates strongly with a good placement. Below, the average placement of games with this base board plus one or two extra units, shown as a correlation to interpret, not a causal recommendation.

Augment path

Data unavailable. Riot's API doesn't populate the augments field for this set — verified directly on the collected sample (the "augments" field doesn't even appear in the response, across 23,000+ real participants checked). The field does exist in the official schema and worked on older sets, so this probably isn't permanent — this section will activate automatically as soon as it fills in again.