Mid · 137 games

Ambessa

Strongest when games end at 25–30 minutes (52%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+56 gold).

Win rate: 46.0%; ±8.3 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #61 of 81
Pick rate: 0.7%; ban 6.8%
Games: 137; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Ambessa mid wins 46.0% of 137 ranked games, rank 61 of 81 mid champions (tier C). Most players finish Profane Hydra first, at about 10:42.

The build at a glance

What most Ambessa players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Profane Hydra 10:54 · 34% · 45 games

Boots

Gluttonous Greaves 12:48 · 35% of games

Item 2

Voltaic Cyclosword 17:40 · 70% · 23 games

Item 3

Death's Dance 22:27 · 71% · 10 games

Item 4 · late game

Endless Hunger 28:36 · 12 of 28 games

Runes

Electrocute · Domination + Resolve 13% of games · 50% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 55% of games · 45% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 77% of games · 48% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Cunning Sweep / Sundering Slam first 99% of games · 46% wins Skill orders →

When Ambessa wins

Best when games end at 25–30′

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′46% wins43% of games · 59

Lasts 25′ or more45% wins55% of games · 75

Lanes

Good into Locke

Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Ambessa games

First Baron: 75% against 29%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 29% 75% +45

First tower 24% 69% +44

Rift Herald 34% 67% +33

First dragon 34% 56% +22

First Voidgrubs 37% 53% +16

First blood 39% 54% +15

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Ambessa plays

Fewer control wards, fewer assists

What stands out (10% or more) against the average mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Fewer control wards a game0.70 against 1.01 · −31%

Fewer assists a game5.0 against 6.2 · −19%

More solo kills a game2.0 against 1.8 · +15%

More damage to towers7833 against 6819 · +15%

Less vision a minute0.68 against 0.76 · −11%

About average: multikills, kill participation, minions, gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~10:30

Item 2done ~18:24

Item 3done ~23:36

Item 4done ~28:54

Most common full builds

Profane Hydra › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Voltaic Cyclosword › Death's Dance 71.4%7 games

Voltaic Cyclosword › Gluttonous Greaves › Eclipse › Death's Dance 25.0%4 games

Profane Hydra › Voltaic Cyclosword › Gluttonous Greaves › Endless Hunger 50.0%4 games

Profane Hydra › Gluttonous Greaves › Voltaic Cyclosword › Death's Dance › Endless Hunger 66.7%3 games

Eclipse › Black Cleaver › Mercury's Treads › Death's Dance 66.7%3 games

Eclipse › Profane Hydra › Mercury's Treads › Death's Dance 66.7%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Endless Hunger 69%13

Voltaic Cyclosword 57%14

Profane Hydra 50%8

Death's Dance 45%22

Serpent's Fang 38%8

Spear of Shojin 17%6

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Blade + Health Potion45.3%75

Doran's Shield + Health Potion50.0%50

Doran's Helm + Health Potion25.0%8

Boots

Gluttonous Greaves ~12:4845.8%48

Mercury's Treads ~14:0046.4%28

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~11:4860.0%25

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite47.6%105

Flash + Teleport43.3%30

Exhaust + Ignite0.0%1

Skills

Max

W45.6%136

Start

E44.3%122

Start

W61.5%13

Runes · 137 games

Laid out like the game: the most picked rune in each row is in colour. Hover or tap a rune for its name, description and numbers.

Domination · 44% win · 77 games

Keystones

100%44%

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100%44%

64%39%

32%56%

4%33%

30%57%

5%25%

65%40%

Resolve · 48% win · 94 games

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74%49%

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68%56%

29%33%

12%36%

9%50%

9%38%

95%47%

1%0%

4%40%

100%46%

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72%44%

1%0%

26%53%

Most played pages

50%18 games

67%6 games

33%6 games

20%5 games

80%5 games

Hard lanes

No clearly hard lane yet

Easy lanes

Good into Locke

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 1 of 1, wins 1 of them

Expected: what Ambessa's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (18)

Yone 33% · 9

Yasuo 38% · 8

Akali 29% · 7

Galio 43% · 7

Viktor 50% · 6

Sylas 20% · 5

LeBlanc 50% · 4

Syndra 50% · 4

Orianna 75% · 4

Talon 100% · 4

Pantheon 67% · 3

Aurelion Sol 67% · 3

Kassadin 100% · 3

Zed 33% · 3

Twisted Fate 67% · 3

Ekko 67% · 3

Ahri 100% · 3

Malzahar 100% · 3

Ambessa vs Locke · 12 games · Early read

Ambessa does better than expected here

58%winsexpected 47%

+2gold at 15′average +56

+6.9minions at 10′ahead or behind

8%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.25 a game

Gold lead against Locke Ambessa's average lead

Against Locke, Ambessa is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 67% of games and wins 75% of those. When behind, Ambessa wins 25%.

Ahead at 15′75% wins8 games

Behind at 15′25% wins4 games

Full Ambessa vs Locke page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy support Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies more than most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Ambessa dies 2.5 times a game (average 2.2). 55% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average mid laner. 25% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.5deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.2)

55%involve the enemy junglermore than average (50%)

75%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (67%)

59%with no teammate nearabout average (61%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Ambessa dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

Ganks: 31% in your half of mid. Collapses: 40% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 54% in your half of mid.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average mid laner

What kills Ambessa

Kind of death

Ambessa Average

Gank 55% (avg 50%)Collapse 21% (avg 17%)1-v-1 25% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Ambessa Average

Bot laner 6% (avg 7%)Jungler 29% (avg 28%)Support 9% (avg 7%)Mid laner 50% (avg 54%)Top laner 6% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 6:00, then every minute

Ambessa Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 6:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Ambessa; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Ambessa wins fights

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 2.3 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.3 in your half of mid. Overall 1.1 kills per death.

Their half of mid 2.3 K/D 153 / 68

Your half of mid 0.3 K/D 37 / 131

The bot-side river 1.5 K/D 44 / 30

Their jungle 1.0 K/D 34 / 34

The top-side river 1.0 K/D 25 / 25

Your jungle 1.0 K/D 24 / 23

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Ambessa wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 19% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 63% when Ambessa is there and 63% when not.

Ambessa

What most Ambessa players run

Best when games end at 25–30′

Good into Locke

First Baron: 75% against 29%

Fewer control wards, fewer assists

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

Good into Locke

Ahead at 15 against 1 of 1, wins 1 of them

Ambessa does better than expected here

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Ambessa's games

Dies more than most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Ambessa

Ganks come at 3:00 and 6:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your jungle