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Ambessa

Strongest when games end at 30–35 minutes (55%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−75 gold).

Win rate: 49.5%; ±2.8 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #61 of 95
Pick rate: 6.5%; ban 6.8%
Games: 1,247; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Ambessa top wins 49.5% of 1,247 ranked games, rank 61 of 95 top champions (tier C). Most players finish Eclipse first, at about 11:12.

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

Eclipse 11:27 · 76% · 935 games

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 15:06 · 45% of games

Item 2

Spear of Shojin 19:52 · 37% · 277 games

Item 3

Death's Dance 26:39 · 73% · 99 games

Item 4 · late game

Endless Hunger 28:54 · 41 of 175 games

Item 5 · late game

Guardian Angel 35:12 · 7 of 41 games

Runes

Grasp of the Undying · Resolve + Inspiration 9% of games · 44% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Shield + Health Potion 42% of games · 49% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 52% of games · 48% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Cunning Sweep / Sundering Slam first 99% of games · 49% wins Skill orders →

When Ambessa wins

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

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

Ends before 25′46% wins38% of games · 478

Lasts 25′ or more51% wins61% of games · 763

Lanes

Watch out for Nasus, Darius, Sion

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

What wins Ambessa games

First Baron: 80% against 31%

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

First Baron 31% 80% +48

First tower 30% 70% +39

Rift Herald 38% 66% +28

First dragon 38% 61% +23

First blood 40% 59% +18

First Voidgrubs 45% 54% +10

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

More control wards, fewer multikills

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

More control wards a game0.77 against 0.68 · +13%

Fewer multikills a game0.36 against 0.41 · −12%

About average: damage, share of team damage, deaths, time spent dead, kill participation, gold, minions, vision.

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 ~11:12

Item 2done ~19:06

Item 3done ~25:18

Item 4done ~29:30

Item 5done ~32:48

Most common full builds

Eclipse › Plated Steelcaps › Spear of Shojin › Death's Dance 65.1%86 games

Eclipse › Plated Steelcaps › Black Cleaver › Death's Dance 63.5%74 games

Eclipse › Plated Steelcaps › Voltaic Cyclosword › Death's Dance 52.5%40 games

Profane Hydra › Voltaic Cyclosword › Plated Steelcaps › Death's Dance 76.5%17 games

Eclipse › Plated Steelcaps › Death's Dance › Endless Hunger 72.7%11 games

Voltaic Cyclosword › Bastionbreaker › Death's Dance › Plated Steelcaps 70.0%10 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

Mortal Reminder 100%8

Axiom Arc 75%8

Profane Hydra 69%16

Death's Dance 62%125

Maw of Malmortius 60%53

Endless Hunger 58%36

Voltaic Cyclosword 58%76

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 Shield + Health Potion48.7%526

Doran's Blade + Health Potion51.7%513

Doran's Helm + Health Potion46.2%197

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~15:0652.8%566

Mercury's Treads ~18:0653.8%277

Gluttonous Greaves ~14:0052.9%51

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport47.6%645

Flash + Ignite51.7%586

Exhaust + Flash63.6%11

Skills

Max

W49.3%1230

Max

E53.3%15

Start

E49.6%1090

Start

W48.1%131

Runes · 1,247 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.

Resolve · 45% win · 605 games

Keystones

100%45%

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100%45%

<1%20%

74%44%

25%48%

66%45%

4%35%

29%47%

Inspiration · 45% win · 514 games

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48%45%

9%43%

21%58%

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72%43%

46%46%

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5%32%

96%50%

1%44%

2%33%

100%50%

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88%51%

<1%29%

11%41%

Most played pages

44%111 games

49%74 games

48%63 games

43%51 games

33%46 games

Hard lanes

Watch out for Nasus, Darius, Sion

Easy lanes

Good into Akali, Vayne, Olaf

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 22 of 40, still wins 13 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 (25)

Corki 56% · 9

Vladimir 44% · 9

Volibear 38% · 8

Mordekaiser 50% · 8

Cassiopeia 57% · 7

Lissandra 43% · 7

Aurora 33% · 6

Quinn 33% · 6

Kayle 83% · 6

Sett 50% · 6

Udyr 80% · 5

Zed 20% · 5

Ahri 0% · 4

Zilean 25% · 4

Elise 50% · 4

Zoe 100% · 4

Shaco 67% · 3

Skarner 33% · 3

Trundle 33% · 3

Wukong 33% · 3

Galio 33% · 3

Shyvana 67% · 3

Ekko 67% · 3

Sylas 100% · 3

Zac 33% · 3

Ambessa vs Renekton · 74 games · Solid sample

Ambessa does worse than expected here

43%winsexpected 50%

−662gold at 15′average −75

−9.9minions at 10′ahead or behind

15%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.30 a game

Gold lead against Renekton Ambessa's average lead

Against Renekton, Ambessa is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 62% of games, and still wins 35% of those. When ahead, Ambessa wins 57%.

Ahead at 15′57% wins28 games

Behind at 15′35% wins46 games

Full Ambessa vs Renekton page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Ambessa games: Kindred, Viktor, Kalista, Nautilus

Enemy jungle Trouble

Kindred25% · exp. 46% −2132 games

Qiyana36% · exp. 47% −1169 games

Lillia36% · exp. 49% −1428 games

Easier

Naafiri70% · exp. 52% +1927 games

Lee Sin62% · exp. 50% +12119 games

Xin Zhao65% · exp. 47% +1817 games

Enemy mid Trouble

Viktor37% · exp. 52% −1562 games

Lissandra28% · exp. 46% −1825 games

Kassadin43% · exp. 54% −1023 games

Easier

Zed67% · exp. 50% +1733 games

Syndra62% · exp. 50% +1165 games

Locke60% · exp. 50% +1080 games

Enemy bot Trouble

Kalista36% · exp. 49% −1345 games

Viktor36% · exp. 49% −1325 games

Yasuo33% · exp. 46% −1321 games

Easier

Karthus63% · exp. 44% +1916 games

Jinx56% · exp. 48% +864 games

Smolder60% · exp. 53% +715 games

Enemy support Trouble

Nautilus43% · exp. 53% −1098 games

Neeko33% · exp. 48% −1521 games

Renata Glasc33% · exp. 45% −1221 games

Easier

Sona55% · exp. 45% +1033 games

Nami57% · exp. 48% +935 games

Lulu57% · exp. 50% +777 games

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 about as often as most top laners

Before 14 minutes Ambessa dies 2.3 times a game (average 2.4). 41% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 40% for the average top laner. 50% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.3deaths per game before 14′about average (2.4)

41%involve the enemy junglerabout average (40%)

50%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (49%)

82%with no teammate nearabout average (83%)

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 top lane

Ganks: 52% in your half of top lane. Collapses: 46% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 63% in your half of top lane.

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 top laner

What kills Ambessa

Kind of death

Ambessa Average

Gank 41% (avg 40%)Collapse 9% (avg 9%)1-v-1 50% (avg 51%)

Who gets the kill

Ambessa Average

Bot laner 1% (avg 2%)Jungler 26% (avg 24%)Support 3% (avg 2%)Mid laner 6% (avg 7%)Top laner 63% (avg 63%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00–5:00 and 7:00–10:00, then every minute

Ambessa Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 7:00. 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 top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.4 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.5 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.9 kills per death.

Your half of top lane 0.5 K/D 759 / 1619

Their half of top lane 1.4 K/D 1202 / 847

The top-side river 1.0 K/D 175 / 174

Your jungle 1.3 K/D 89 / 70

Their jungle 1.3 K/D 82 / 62

Their half of bot lane 2.8 K/D 34 / 12

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 16% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 66% when Ambessa is there and 69% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 16:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 50%; for Ambessa it is 47% against 50%.

Ambessa

What most Ambessa players run

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

Watch out for Nasus, Darius, Sion

First Baron: 80% against 31%

More control wards, fewer multikills

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

Watch out for Nasus, Darius, Sion

Good into Akali, Vayne, Olaf

Behind at 15 against 22 of 40, still wins 13 of them

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Enemies that cost Ambessa games: Kindred, Viktor, Kalista, Nautilus

Teammates that change Ambessa's games

Dies about as often as most top laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

What kills Ambessa

Ganks come at 3:00–5:00 and 7:00–10:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

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

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