Ambessa
Hardest matchups for Ambessa in Top (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Zed, 
Wukong, 
Irelia. Easiest: 
Corki, 
Kayn, 
Udyr.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into AmbessaOn the pro tier list
Ambessa on patch 16.22
- Top47.8%#94 of 103C10,882 games
- Jungle46.7%#69 of 74C1,517 games
- steady since 16.21
Ambessa’s main role on patch 16.22 is Top: a 47.8% win rate across 10,882 Emerald games, #94 of 103 Top champions on the tier list (grade C), picked in 4.4% of games. Ambessa is also played Jungle: a 46.7% win rate across 1,517 games, #69 of 74. Since patch 16.21, Ambessa Top has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.2 points across 59,127 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top79% of its games | C | 49.0%49.0% raw ±0.7 | 19,897 | 2.9%3.4% banned | 50.5%45.8% first time |
| Jungle14% of its games | C | 47.6%46.9% raw ±1.7 | 3,432 | 0.5%3.4% banned | 49.9%43.7% first time |
| Mid6% of its games | A | 50.6%51.0% raw ±2.5 | 1,525 | 0.2%3.4% banned | 51.2%47.6% first time |
| Bot0% of its games | too few games | 49.5%44.1% raw ±10.2 | 93 | 0.0%3.4% banned | 51.5%46.4% first time |
| Support0% of its games | too few games | 49.1%39.3% raw ±10.7 | 84 | 0.0%3.4% banned | 51.3%46.7% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Ambessa’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Ambessa, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Ambessa
Lane leads and team bans
What Ambessa’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Ambessa than the other team does in the same games (122,844 games). The other team banned before Ambessa was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Ambessa was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Ambessa is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- AD bruiser
50.7%17,045 games - Lethality
53.3%2,016 games - Crit
51.2%78 games - Tank
51.1%5 games - On-hit
50.9%2 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Ambessa does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
21,922 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Teleport48.2% · 7,653 games
Grasp of the UndyingResolve + Inspiration · 47.9%
Shield Bash · Bone Plating · Overgrowth · Biscuit Delivery · Cosmic InsightShards: Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Start: Doran's Blade + Health Potion · 52.0%
Key items: Eclipse → Voltaic Cyclosword · 52.4%
Boots: Mercury's Treads · 52.0%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Teleport48.2%7,653 games · 35% pick rate · same players: +0.2 pts vs the usualRecommended
Flash + Ignite49.1%13,474 games · 61% pick rate · the usual choice
Exhaust + Flash48.6%603 games · 2.8% pick rate · same players: −1.8 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Keystones
- Grasp of the Undying + Inspiration47.9%6,618 games · 30% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Stormraider's Surge + Domination53.0%668 games · 3.1% pick rate · same players: −0.6 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended- Grasp of the Undying + Domination49.2%4,646 games · 21% pick rate · same players: −1.0 pts vs the usual
Conqueror + Resolve48.1%5,342 games · 24% pick rate · same players: −1.1 pts vs the usual
Minor runes with Grasp of the Undying
- Shield Bash48.5%100% take it
- Bone Plating50.1%18% take it
Second Wind48.1%81% take it
- Overgrowth48.0%88% take it
Unflinching50.3%8.4% take it
Revitalize54.1%3.1% take it
- Biscuit Delivery47.7%90% take it
- Cosmic Insight49.0%19% take it
Magical Footwear47.4%80% take it
Triple Tonic52.2%5.9% take it
Cash Back49.7%3.8% take it
- Adaptive Force48.7%95% take it
- Attack Speed49.0%2.8% take it
- Ability Haste49.5%2.3% take it
- Adaptive Force48.7%99% take it
- Health Scaling49.7%13% take it
- Health48.6%85% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Ambessa’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Ambessa’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Ambessa does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Ambessa wins 46.4%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 51.9%. That gap ranks it 74 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 140K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Ambessa in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | 49.5%303W 312L | 33%39% in any lane | 47% counter | −67 gold | — |
| Jungle | 47.7%40W 59L | 5%39% in any lane | 32% counter | +52 gold | — |
| Mid | 50.0%2W 2L | 0%39% in any lane | 75% counter | +360 gold | — |
How much knowing Ambessa pays
Players on their Mastery band win 5.5 points more on Ambessa than first-timers do: #74 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Ambessa players win 51.9%: #116 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 52.7% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
AmbessaDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Ambessa ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Zaahen, Dr. Mundo, Aatrox.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.