Vanguard Marksman Aphelios & Xayah

Gameplan:

With the Buffs in 14.6 you want to always play around 6 Vanguards with Xayah and Aphelios. Aphelios needs to have Rageblade and Krakens Fury which allows him to scale. Itemprio: Aphelios & Leona > Xayah. Garen is your Level 9 with Vanguard Emblem or Mod. Aurora or Zac can work too. Little Buddies is broken in this comp.

You want to play Marksman Vanguard when you have an strong opener with ad items. This comp does not cap very high after Level 8 and is very expensive with 3 4 Cost Units and 2 3 Costs at Level 8. This means you want to winstreak with an Item Augment or have an Gold/XP Augment when your contested. Keep in mind you want to have Xayah, Aphelios and Leona itemized on Stage 4. In Stage 5 this board will fall off if you do not have 2 good combat Augments.

Your best opener consists of Vanguards while having either Rapidfire or Marksman Units. (Kog + Skarner + Kindred/Draven + Jarvan/Braum/Vi or Jinx + Jhin + Jarvan/Braum + Vi. (Sylas is weak) Kog & Jinx can Itemhold for Xayah and Aphelios. On Level 5, 6 and 7 you add more Vanguards. Golden Ox Alistar + Bruiser with Graves can be an early opener too which also allows you to build up the damageamp for aphelios while farming a little gold. Graves Itemholds for Aphelios. On Level 8 on 4-1 or 4-2 you want to roll deep for Leona2, Xayah2 and Aphelios2 to stabilize otherwise you will bleed out quick. You want to have atleast Leona2 and either Xayah2 or Aphelios2. Jinx2 > Xayah1. Your best Unit to add on Level 9 is Zac because he can outscale every Board on 2* with Blobs. You want fights to last long which means Rageblade and Krakens have time to scale up. You swap Items from Leona to Zac if he is 2* with ~15 blobs. If you dont hit Zac2 with Blobs your next best in is Aurora with Kobuko, Urgot or Zac coming from the Bench.

Marksman gives alot of AD. Xayah wants infinity Edge and Strikers Flail her next best Item is either Hand of Justice, Giant-Slayer or Last-Whisper if you dont have Evenshroud on Leona. Aphelios wants attackspeed, 1 Rageblade paired with Krakens for some extra AD. Hextech Gunblade is his 3rd best Item. It helps leona with her survivability. Leonas best Item is Warmogs with some Armor- or Magic Resistances Items like Dragonclaw, Bramble Vest, Protectors Vow or Gargoyles depending on what damagetype your Lobby is playing. She gets Durability from beeing a Vanguard. She holds Evenshroud very well if you do not have Last-Whisper on Xayah. You can swap Sunfire & Evenshroud from Leona onto Jarvan if you have real Tank Items for her.

You always want your main damagedealer which are aphelios and xayah to benefit from your armorpen coming from Evenshroud or Last-Whisper. Jarvan should be placed right under Leona infront of your ad carrys because he applies flat armorpen too.

Your winout options are multiple strong Combat Augments, Zac2 with many Blobs, Jinx3 or Jarvan3 if you naturaled alot before your rolldown and your strong in health + eco, Aphelios3, Xayah3 or Leona3. or Level 9 with 6 Vanguards (You add Braum).

If you find yourself in a Spot where you only have Items for only 1 Tank & 1 Damagedealer you can pivot out of Marksman into Anima Squad if you hold Units in Stage 3 but dont sacrifice your eco. You can also pivot into 4 Dynamo 4 vanguards with Sylas Leona Jhin.

With a Vanguard Emblem you go for 6 Vanguards with Aphelios and Xayah. Zac or Garen are the best Vanguard- Emblemholder.

Marksman Miss Fortune is strong you drop Jinx for her and add on Level 9 Aurora for more Dynamo. Marksman Emblem reduces Enemy Armor. Your Earlygame Board looks like this -> Kog with Marksman Emblem, Skarner, Kindred + Vanguard)

Encounter :

High Resource Encounter (Items & Gold) Scuddle Puddle or Crab Rave, Component Anvil are helpful because you need lots of Gold and Items on Level 8.

Augments:

Usually you want to take 1 Item Augment at 2-1 to winstreak and 2 Combat to compete against higher cap boards. You only take a Gold/XP Augment if your contested or its a low resource Portal which means your broke.

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