Vanguard Elder Dragon

Vanguard Elder Dragon banks early, levels late, and finishes as one of the meta's legendary-stacked fast-9 boards. It currently grades out at Tier C in TFT Set 18, with a 4.75 average placement over 19k games.

Of the 54 comps on our board it holds spot #31, 0.13 clear of the 4.89 that marks the middle of Tier C. Popularity is the catch: 1.89% of tracked games feature it against a median of 0.91 percent, and shared cores get expensive to hit.

Itemization starts with Elder Dragon: sampled lobbies most commonly built Deathblade, Infinity Edge, and Striker's Flail, averaging 3.90 when completed. Maokai picks up the leftovers as the board's second threat.

Trait-wise you are holding Vanguard 2 as the anchor of 8 active synergies, with Inferno at 2 in support. The roster holds 1 unit of Executioner without activating the trait, so a Executioner Emblem turns it on at the 2-piece tier.

Should an emblem land in your lap, Executioner Emblem does the most for this board, with Inferno Emblem the runner-up. Flip the question around and the model agrees: among all 22 comps ranked for Executioner Emblem holders, this one lands at #12.

Inferno Draven and Juggernaut Zyra build around the same Maokai core as Vanguard Elder Dragon, so the lines contest each other's shops; when Maokai copies dry up, that overlap is your pivot map.