Xayah

Xayah is an AD carry in the adc, and on patch 16.17 they grade out as a strong pick — a 53.5% win rate, 4.7% pick rate, 54,935 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Xayah 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 Xayah wins: grouped 5-v-5 teamfights, where Xayah tips the fight, and winning the wave and turning push priority into map control. The kit grades 7/10 teamfighting, 7/10 waveclear. Xayah's soft spots are engage and roaming (3/10, 2/10) — avoid fights that hinge on them.

The most-played core build is Yun Tal Wildarrows, Navori Flickerblade, Infinity Edge, which holds a 56.7% win rate across 5,232 games this patch. The build above re-optimizes once you lock in the enemy composition.

The matchup to respect is Taliyah, where Xayah sits at just 44.0%, the lane swings the other way into Naafiri (62.6%), and on the team side, Xayah gains the most from a Gragas (+8.5% pair win rate).