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Ambessa Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 31,588 gamesUpdated

47.8%win rate1.4%pick3.0%ban

Who counters Ambessa

Every Top matchup for Ambessa, ranked →

How to build Ambessa

Plated Steelcaps→Eclipse→Spear of Shojin→Death's Dance

Plated Steelcaps → Eclipse → Spear of Shojin → Death's Dance

53.3% win rate 18% of games 2,982 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteLast StandResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind20% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite67%
Skills
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Cunning Sweep / Sundering Slam
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Repudiation
214151718
Lacerate
39101213
Public Execution
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Ambessa build →
47.8%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.8% over 69,635 gamesPatch 26.21: 47.8% over 31,588 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
47.3%at Emerald+
1.4%pick rate
3.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
47.1%under 22 min
48.6%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Ambessa champion portraitT AmbessavsFiora champion portraitT Fiora
6 / 6 / 8

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Eclipse→Spear of Shojin

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

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Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Ambessa champion portraitT AmbessavsRenekton champion portraitT Renekton
4 / 7 / 9

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Eclipse→Spear of Shojin

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEREEWWR
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Ambessa champion portraitT AmbessavsGangplank champion portraitT Gangplank
3 / 7 / 1

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Eclipse

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQEREW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 46.0% win rate · 20% of games · 6,038 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteLast Stand
ResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Runner up 46.2% win rate · 19% of games · 5,701 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindOvergrowth
DominationSudden ImpactUltimate Hunter
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite67%48.1%21,500 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport30%47.0%9,650 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps59%Mercury's Treads27%Boots7%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 47.4% win rate

Ambessa build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Eclipse1st
  2. Spear of Shojin2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
8% of games that reach a third item take this path54.7% win rate1,304 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Ambessa →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 31,652 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
59% · 47.6% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
27% · 50.1% win rate
BootsBoots
6% · 39.3% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
4% · 56.6% win rate
No bootsNo boots
2% · 47.4% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
1% · 37.2% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Eclipse+Plated Steelcaps6% of games · 32.8% win rate · 1,949 games
  2. Eclipse›Spear of Shojin+Plated Steelcaps6% of games · 43.8% win rate · 1,748 games
  3. Eclipse›Black Cleaver+Plated Steelcaps4% of games · 41.6% win rate · 1,217 games
  4. Spear of Shojin›Eclipse+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 40.0% win rate · 847 games
  5. Eclipse›Spear of Shojin›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 51.3% win rate · 713 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Ambessa against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Ambessa's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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