Vanguard Hecarim

Vanguard Hecarim is a slow-roll board: hold your economy at level 7 and dig for Rengar, a 3-cost unit you want at three stars before pushing levels. It currently grades out at Tier C in TFT Set 18, with a 4.89 average placement over 6,023 games.

In the wider field it ranks #32 of 53 by placement, sitting 0.06 better than the Tier C median of 4.95 as 5th among 12 Tier-C comps. Middling popularity: 0.3% of tracked games, with the median comp at 0.49%.

Rengar holds item priority, and the standard kit is Rapidfire Emblem, Edge of Night, and Titan's Resolve (a 3.59 average once assembled). Hecarim picks up the leftovers as the board's second threat.

The final board keeps 7 traits active, led by Vanguard (4), with Riftbeast at 3 in support. If you spot Mama Beak on someone's board, it is almost certainly this comp — only 2 other tracked comps field it. One synergy is still switched off: Invoker, at 1 unit — one Invoker Emblem activates the 2-piece bonus outright.

Best emblem here: Invoker Emblem, and Lunar Emblem takes second. Run the emblem-first search for Invoker Emblem and this board appears at #15 of 20.

Hunter Sivir Nidalee and Vanguard Aphelios build around the same Rengar core as Vanguard Hecarim, and that overlap is where your pivots (in either direction) live.

Treat the numbers with some care — at 6,023 recorded games this is one of the thinner samples we track.