Gwen

Gwen is an AP duelist in the mid, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 52.8% win rate, 0.5% pick rate, 6,066 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Gwen 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 Gwen 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 8/10 split-push, 7/10 waveclear. Play around where Gwen is thin, engage and siege (3/10, 3/10), and the enemy loses their angle.

The most-played core build is Dusk and Dawn, Shadowflame, Rabadon's Deathcap, which holds a 58.4% win rate across 382 games this patch. The build above re-optimizes once you lock in the enemy composition.

The matchup to respect is Darius, where Gwen sits at just 45.6%, the lane swings the other way into Nocturne (60.2%), and on the team side, Gwen gains the most from a Sivir (+6.8% pair win rate).