Tryndamere

Tryndamere is an AD melee carry in the top, and on patch 16.17 they grade out as a strong pick — a 52.4% win rate, 3.2% pick rate, 37,219 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 grades low on roaming and siege (3/10, 3/10), so don't take fights that turn on those dimensions.

The most-played core build is Ravenous Hydra, Phantom Dancer, Infinity Edge, which holds a 58.3% win rate across 1,557 games this patch. The build above re-optimizes once you lock in the enemy composition.

The matchup to respect is Kennen, where Tryndamere sits at just 41.5%, the lane swings the other way into Irelia (59.1%), and on the team side, Tryndamere gains the most from a Senna (+9.4% pair win rate).