Ambessa
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · KRBans, presence and fearless: Ambessa across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 11.1%picked in 2,057 of 18,493 games
- Ban
- 12.7%2,227 bans over 17,541 games, against 3.2% in soloQ
Amateur: 18,736 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR. SoloQ Master+: 316,098 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Jungle.DraftLength
- How to play itConqueror, then Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Death's Dance: the most played build in soloQ.
- In a compNo trait above other junglers; the most marked: Takes its kills in duels (rank 71).
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftPriority pick: taken in G1, burned afterwards.
What changes in tournaments?
2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Jungle.
- DraftBanned more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 12.5%
- SoloQ
- 3.2%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 28.7 min
- SoloQ
- 25.7 min
How to play it?
Conqueror, then Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Death's Dance: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesConqueror84% · 3,417
SpellsFlash + Smite100% · 4,049
SkillsQnot collected in soloQ- Profane Hydra
- Voltaic Cyclosword
- Death's Dance
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
No trait above other junglers; the most marked: Takes its kills in duels (rank 71).
- Its most marked traitTakes its kills in duelstop29%22% · junglers: 20%
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other junglers
What marks it
Nothing above junglers.
Like other junglers
- Damage in lane
- Damage in mid game
- Damage in late game
- Gold at 15 min
- Gold at 20 min
- Map pressure
- Absorbs damage
- Plays teamfights
- Takes its kills in duels
- Lets allies carry kills
- Team damage
- Jungle farm
- Invade
What it is not
- Little CC
- No poke
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 37 in lane, 42 in mid game and 63 in late game, out of 100 junglers.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, behind 58% of junglers against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among junglers · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 37 of 100 among junglers367 · median 383
- Damage in mid game · rank 42 of 100 among junglers789 · median 796
- Damage in late game · rank 63 of 100 among junglers1,107 · median 1,056
- Gold at 15 min · rank 39 of 100 among junglers-46 · median +6
- Gold at 20 min · rank 43 of 100 among junglers-46 · median +64
- Map pressure · rank 31 of 100 among junglers4.2 · median 4.7
- Absorbs damage · rank 45 of 100 among junglers775 · median 855
- Plays teamfights · rank 35 of 100 among junglers51% · median 52%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 71 of 100 among junglers22% · median 20%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 34 of 100 among junglersrank 34 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 24 of 100 among junglers0.5 · median 0.7
- Team damage · rank 61 of 100 among junglers18% · median 17%
- Jungle farm · rank 67 of 100 among junglers67 · median 66
- Invade · rank 49 of 100 among junglers7% · median 7%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
- Yunara13 games—SoloQ: 46.5% · 374 g
- Lucian12 games—SoloQ: 51.9% · 187 g
- Kai'Sa9 games—SoloQ: 48.1% · 439 g
- Caitlyn8 games—SoloQ: 49.1% · 218 g
- Jhin7 games—SoloQ: 46.8% · 477 g
- Tristana7 games—SoloQ: 47.0% · 217 g
- Zeri7 games—SoloQ: 40.0% · 150 g
- Aphelios5 games—SoloQ: 49.3% · 294 g
- Ashe5 games—SoloQ: 50.8% · 63 g
- Xayah5 games—SoloQ: 48.4% · 157 g
Ban it or pick it?
Priority pick: taken in G1, burned afterwards.
Pick rate as Jungle
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+0.6%3,673 picks of 632,196ban 3.2% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments0.6%147 picks of 23,550ban 12.5% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.3%7 picks of 2,214bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
