Gwen

Gwen is an AP duelist in the top, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 50.2% win rate, 1.9% pick rate, 22,458 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. Gwen's soft spots are engage and siege (3/10, 3/10) — avoid fights that hinge on them.

The most-played core build is Dusk and Dawn, Shadowflame, Rabadon's Deathcap, which holds a 57.6% win rate across 957 games this patch. Pick the enemy team to adapt each item slot to the specific matchup.

The matchup to respect is Singed, where Gwen sits at just 36.8%, the lane swings the other way into Quinn (56.3%), and on the team side, Gwen gains the most from a Aurelion Sol (+7.2% pair win rate).