Xayah

Xayah is an AD carry in the adc, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a strong pick — a 53.1% win rate, 3.7% pick rate, 43,522 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 Essence Reaver, Navori Flickerblade, Infinity Edge, which holds a 54.0% win rate across 7,024 games this patch. The build above re-optimizes once you lock in the enemy composition.

The matchup to respect is Seraphine, where Xayah sits at just 40.2%, the lane swings the other way into Mel (58.6%), and on the team side, Xayah gains the most from a Brand (+8.3% pair win rate).