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Singed
The Perfect Meta DraftPatch 16.17
THE PERFECT META DRAFT
Patch 16.17
Who plays well together
Why this comp works
Scaling TeamfightAD-heavy
AD 59%AD-heavyAP 41%
- Starts the fightSinged
Deals the damageTristana
Keeps the carry aliveZilean
Convert picks or wave priority into dragons and Baron rather than chasing leftover fights.
How to start
Look for early skirmishes and plate pressure before the enemy scaling window.
Who engages
Start fights on your engage threat, then hold a front-to-back shape.
What to avoid
Avoid splitting the map if your engage and peel cannot reconnect.
Data highRole mediumRanking Close444,254 Flex 5 + Ranked 5 games
The next-best full drafts are close. Treat this as a tight cluster, not a unique solution.
Closest full drafts
These are statistically close alternatives, not distant backups.
#2 · -0.51 vs #1
#3 · -0.56 vs #1
#4 · -0.56 vs #1
Best draft by archetype
The strongest coordinated lineup found for each identity — not leftover drafts from the overall #1 search.
- Early SnowballOverall #1
Data analyzed
444,254 Flex 5 + Ranked 5 games across the last 17 patches. SoloQ is not in this sample.
Games by patch
Flex 5 vs Ranked 5
Flex 5
- Flex 5
- 396,892
- Ranked 5
- 52,062
| Patch | Games | % |
|---|---|---|
| 16.1 | 1,424 | 0.3 |
| 16.2 | 1,949 | 0.4 |
| 16.3 | 3,040 | 0.7 |
| 16.4 | 3,391 | 0.8 |
| 16.5 | 4,240 | 1.0 |
| 16.6 | 5,487 | 1.2 |
| Patch | Games | % |
|---|---|---|
| 16.7 | 8,321 | 1.9 |
| 16.8 | 11,077 | 2.5 |
| 16.9 | 13,983 | 3.1 |
| 16.10 | 20,820 | 4.7 |
| 16.11 | 30,450 | 6.9 |
| 16.12 | 40,775 | 9.2 |
| Patch | Games | % |
|---|---|---|
| 16.13 | 107,729 | 24.2 |
| 16.14 | 70,807 | 15.9 |
| 16.15 | 54,227 | 12.2 |
| 16.16 | 46,825 | 10.5 |
| 16.17now | 19,709 | 4.4 |
Champion strength
How strong each pick is in coordinated 5v5, and when they spike in the game.
52.6%
1,787 games
51.9%
2,067 games
53.7%
495 games
53.2%
5,640 games
51.6%
6,714 games
Power spike · early / mid / late
Who plays well together
Green lines mean these two win more as a pair than their solo power. Red means they win less.
+
Win more together495 games
+Win more together89 games · thin sample
+Win more together85 games · thin sample
- +
Win more together74 games · thin sample
- +
Win more together83 games · thin sample
+Win less together107 games
Against popular champs
For each role, how this draft does versus the champs people actually play.
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StrongUsually beats these champs
Jungle
GoodFine against these champs
Mid
GoodFine against these champs
ADC
GoodFine against these champs
Support
EvenNo big advantage
Best replacements
Full-comp score if you swap this lane. Swaps that collapse the draft into one damage type are hidden.
Top
Malphite-2.03 vs this draft · SoloQ A- Olaf-2.26 vs this draft · SoloQ A
- Wukong-2.37 vs this draft · SoloQ A
Jungle
- Wukong+0.18 vs this draft · SoloQ A
Rammus+0.10 vs this draft · SoloQ S- Zyra-0.07 vs this draft
Mid
- Zoe-0.06 vs this draft · SoloQ B
- Annie-0.70 vs this draft · SoloQ A
Gragas-0.84 vs this draft · SoloQ S+
ADC
Zeri-1.23 vs this draft · SoloQ A
Nilah-1.92 vs this draft · SoloQ A
Karthus-2.22 vs this draft
Support
Thresh-0.96 vs this draft · SoloQ A- Milio-1.61 vs this draft · SoloQ A
- Rell-1.72 vs this draft · SoloQ A
How we calculate the Perfect Meta Draft
We don't just add five high-win-rate champions together. The model looks at how champions perform as a unit: role strength, pair synergies, matchup coverage, team composition structure and how well the draft matches the current high-elo 5v5 meta.
- The published pool is Flex 5 and Ranked 5 only — never SoloQ as the main sample.
- Confirmed Flex 5-stacks outweigh unconfirmed Flex candidates.
- A published role must be the profile role or an established flex (≥25% share, 120 games). An 11% Singed mid cannot be the Perfect Draft mid.
- Master+ and Ranked 5 samples receive a higher data-quality weight.
- History starts at patch 16.1. Geometric recency still applies inside that window.
- Champion power is shrinked so 70% on 20 games cannot beat 54% on 8,000.
- Synergies and matchups are residuals, not raw pair win rates.
- Public synergy cards hide samples below 50 games; the engine still shrinks internally.
- SoloQ DPM tiers only nudge close full drafts. They do not change the 5v5 score weights.
- A lane swap that would collapse mixed damage into one type is not offered as a replacement.
| Champion strength | Mixed | Role-adjusted performance sits at 52.6% after shrinkage; some roles still have a thinner sample. |
|---|---|---|
| Draft synergy | Mixed | Tristana and Yuumi are the clearest published residual (+4.6 pts over independent power). |
| Team structure | Strong | The profiles give this draft a real frontline, a dedicated engage threat, peel for the carry, waveclear. |
| Current meta fit | Mixed | Against the most present coordinated champs of this patch, the matchup picture is good. |
| Data confidence | high | Data confidence is high from 16703 effective role games after recency weighting — not a claim that #1 dominates every alternative. |
Methodology meta-draft-v4 · cutoff patch 16.17
Perfect Meta Draft history
Why not just use SoloQ winrate?
A team draft depends on synergies, role assignments, coordinated play and the opponents good teams actually pick. A champion that is strong in Solo Queue does not automatically produce the best five-player draft. The numbers on this page come from Flex 5 and Ranked 5.
Teams
1,304
Players
6,299
Games
22,414
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