Yasuo

Yasuo is an AD duelist in the mid, and on patch 16.17 they grade out as a top-tier pick — a 51.0% win rate, 8.9% pick rate, 103,727 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Yasuo 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 Yasuo wins: grouped 5-v-5 teamfights, where Yasuo tips the fight, and splitpushing a side lane and forcing the enemy to answer it. The kit grades 8/10 teamfighting, 7/10 split-push, 7/10 waveclear. Play around where Yasuo is thin, siege and disengage (3/10, 2/10), and the enemy loses their angle.

The most-played core build is Blade of the Ruined King, Immortal Shieldbow, Infinity Edge, which holds a 57.9% win rate across 8,119 games this patch. The build above re-optimizes once you lock in the enemy composition.

The matchup to respect is Kennen, where Yasuo sits at just 38.5%, the lane swings the other way into Twitch (64.5%), and on the team side, Yasuo gains the most from a Anivia (+7.5% pair win rate).