Yasuo

Yasuo is an AD duelist in the adc, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a top-tier pick — a 53.5% win rate, 1.1% pick rate, 12,698 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 58.8% win rate across 1,215 games this patch. Pick the enemy team to adapt each item slot to the specific matchup.

The matchup to respect is Brand, where Yasuo sits at just 40.0%, the lane swings the other way into Ezreal (58.2%), and on the team side, Yasuo gains the most from a Azir (+11.6% pair win rate).