Elder Dragon
Elder Dragon is a 5-cost ranged unit with 9 copies in the shared pool. 3.75 average placement across 1.6M ranked games, ranking 4 of 10 among 5-costs.
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Riftbeast Passive: Attacks deal damage to enemies adjacent to the target. Active: Become invulnerable and fly into the air. On return, stun all enemies for seconds, gain Omnivamp, and Ignite them for seconds. Ignited enemies take max Health physical damage per second. Replace this ability with Flame Breath and immediately cast it. Flame Breath: Spew fire at the most enemies in a line through the target, dealing physical damage, reduced by for each enemy it passes through (minimum .) Ignite those enemies for seconds. Elder Dragon Buff: Damaging an enemy below Health executes them.
Best items for Elder Dragon
These are the builds recorded on boards that played Elder Dragon this patch, ordered by how often they appear. The first row is the default; the rest are what people build when the components didn't cooperate.
| Build | In comp | Avg place | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
   | Riftbeast Pebbles | 3.12 | 5.0k |
| | Inferno Elder Dragon | 3.40 | 4.7k |
  | Blossom Sett | 3.27 | 15 |
Note what the table does not say: that you should hold components waiting for the top row. A two-item Elder Dragon on the board at 4-1 beats a perfect one at 5-2 in almost every game you'll play — the reasoning is in the chapter on slamming.
Building Elder Dragon mid-game? The in-game TFT helper shows how many copies are left in the pool under the shop and grades each augment for the comp you're on, without leaving the game.
Stats by star level
Health and attack damage roughly multiply by 1.8 per star, which is the whole reason a 3★ 1-cost can hold a board that a 1★ 4-cost cannot. Armour, magic resist and range never change with stars.
| Star | Health | Attack damage | Armour | MR | Attack speed | Range | Mana |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ★ | 1800 | 125 | 75 | 75 | 0.5 | 2 | 20/60 |
| ★★ | 3240 | 225 | 75 | 75 | 0.5 | 2 | 20/60 |
| ★★★ | 5832 | 405 | 75 | 75 | 0.5 | 2 | 20/60 |
The mana column is start/cost: Elder Dragon begins each fight with 20 mana and casts at 60. That gap is what a Tear closes, and it's why the same item is transformative on one unit and wasted on another — see how mana works.
Comps playing Elder Dragon
Ranked by the comp's own average placement. A Elder Dragon marked as a carry is one the comp builds items on.
Other 5-costs
Where these numbers come from. Placements, win rates and pick rates are aggregated from ranked Teamfight Tactics games — the same dataset the NoxuTFT desktop app reads, refreshed every six hours. Champion costs, traits, item recipes and trait breakpoints are game data from Riot. Tier letters are relative to this set: S is the top 10% by average placement, not an absolute threshold, and champions are ranked inside their cost bracket because a 5-cost's average only looks good for having been reached from a winning position. NoxuTFT is not affiliated with Riot Games.