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Ambessa Build

Mid Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 1,976 gamesUpdated

49.1%win rate0.1%pick3.0%ban

Who counters Ambessa

How to build Ambessa

Chainlaced Crushers→Eclipse→Voltaic Cyclosword→Death's Dance

Chainlaced Crushers → Eclipse → Voltaic Cyclosword → Death's Dance

47.4% win rate 7% of games 76 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteLast StandResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind19% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite81%
Skills
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Cunning Sweep / Sundering Slam
14578
Repudiation
214151718
Lacerate
39101213
Public Execution
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Ambessa build →
49.1%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.6% over 5,249 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.1% over 1,976 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
47.6%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
3.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
48.7%under 22 min
50.8%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 25–30m
MASTER+
Ambessa champion portraitM AmbessavsLocke champion portraitM Locke
9 / 4 / 2

Build

Armored Advance|Voltaic Cyclosword→Profane Hydra→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Ambessa champion portraitM AmbessavsTwisted Fate champion portraitM Twisted Fate
5 / 4 / 3

Build

Chainlaced Crushers|Eclipse

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

WQEQQRQEQER
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Ambessa champion portraitM AmbessavsSylas champion portraitM Sylas
13 / 0 / 4

Build

Immortal Path|Eclipse→Voltaic Cyclosword→Endless Hunger→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEREEWW

Runes

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

Most popular 45.3% win rate · 19% of games · 276 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteLast Stand
ResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Runner up 42.9% win rate · 10% of games · 147 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 + Ignite81%50.3%1,627 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport14%44.3%287 games

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

Boots
Chainlaced Crushers36%Armored Advance27%Immortal Path26%
Chainlaced Crushers most often · 46.5% win rate

Ambessa build

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

  1. Profane Hydra1st
  2. Voltaic Cyclosword2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
4% of games that reach a third item take this path65.9% win rate41 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Ambessa →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 1,989 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
35% · 46.9% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
26% · 50.9% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
26% · 54.8% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
5% · 50.0% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 36.8% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Eclipse+Chainlaced Crushers3% of games · 29.4% win rate · 51 games
  2. Eclipse+Armored Advance2% of games · 25.0% win rate · 36 games
  3. Eclipse›Voltaic Cyclosword+Chainlaced Crushers2% of games · 37.1% win rate · 35 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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