Tryndamere

Tryndamere is an AD melee carry in the jungle, and on patch 16.17 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 52.2% win rate, 0.3% pick rate, 2,897 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Tryndamere is a scaling champion: comparatively weak early, but one of the strongest picks on the map once core items come online — so the plan is to survive the laning phase and take the game over late.

How Tryndamere wins: splitpushing a side lane and forcing the enemy to answer it, and winning the wave and turning push priority into map control. The kit grades 10/10 split-push, 7/10 waveclear. Tryndamere's soft spots are roaming and siege (3/10, 3/10) — avoid fights that hinge on them.

The most-played core build is Kraken Slayer, Phantom Dancer, Infinity Edge, which holds a 52.5% win rate across 80 games this patch. Pick the enemy team to adapt each item slot to the specific matchup.

The matchup to respect is Malphite, where Tryndamere sits at just 44.2%, the lane swings the other way into Jhin (55.9%), and on the team side, Tryndamere gains the most from a Mordekaiser (+9.9% pair win rate).