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Ambessa Build

Jungle Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 5,274 gamesUpdated

48.7%win rate0.2%pick3.0%ban

Who counters Ambessa

Every Jungle matchup for Ambessa, ranked →

How to build Ambessa

Plated Steelcaps→Profane Hydra→Voltaic Cyclosword→Death's Dance

Plated Steelcaps → Profane Hydra → Voltaic Cyclosword → Death's Dance

49.1% win rate 11% of games 428 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteLast StandInspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear30% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite100%
Skills
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Cunning Sweep / Sundering Slam
14578
Repudiation
314151718
Lacerate
29101213
Public Execution
61116
StartGustwalker HatchlingHealth PotionGustwalker Hatchling, Health Potion
Full Ambessa build →
48.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 47.7% over 12,619 gamesPatch 26.21: 48.7% over 5,274 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
48.0%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
3.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
42.7%under 22 min
50.5%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.

Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Ambessa champion portraitJ AmbessavsNidalee champion portraitJ Nidalee
6 / 7 / 8

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingPlated Steelcaps|Profane Hydra→Voltaic Cyclosword→Death's Dance→Endless Hunger

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEEREWWWR
Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Ambessa champion portraitJ AmbessavsLee Sin champion portraitJ Lee Sin
4 / 1 / 5

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingBoots|Voltaic Cyclosword→Endless Hunger

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QEQWQRQEQEER
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Ambessa champion portraitJ AmbessavsMaokai champion portraitJ Maokai
2 / 5 / 6

Build

Scorchclaw PupBoots|Profane Hydra→Voltaic Cyclosword→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWW

Runes

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

Most popular 48.4% win rate · 30% of games · 1,463 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteLast Stand
InspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Runner up 50.4% win rate · 12% of games · 567 games
InspirationFirst StrikeCash BackTriple TonicCosmic Insight
PrecisionLegend: HasteTriumph
Shards Ability Haste · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 100% of games, 48.3% win rate. No real variation.

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps42%Mercury's Treads28%Gluttonous Greaves9%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 48.4% win rate
Jungle pet
Scorchclaw Pup50%
5 of 10 recent games started Scorchclaw Pup

Ambessa build

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

  1. Voltaic Cyclosword1st
  2. Profane Hydra2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
9% of games that reach a third item take this path55.9% win rate363 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Ambessa →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 5,372 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
41% · 48.5% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
28% · 50.8% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
9% · 54.1% win rate
BootsBoots
9% · 41.2% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
6% · 36.4% win rate
No bootsNo boots
4% · 49.5% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Voltaic Cyclosword›Profane Hydra›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 55.1% win rate · 98 games
  2. Profane Hydra›Voltaic Cyclosword›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 43.8% win rate · 73 games
  3. Voltaic Cyclosword›Profane Hydra+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 39.7% win rate · 73 games
  4. Profane Hydra›Voltaic Cyclosword+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 30.8% win rate · 65 games
  5. Profane Hydra+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 28.3% win rate · 60 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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