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 2,010 of 18,049 games
- Ban
- 12.7%2,172 bans over 17,103 games, against 3.1% in soloQ
Amateur: 18,068 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR. SoloQ Master+: 304,693 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: Jungle farm (rank 77).
- 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
- 3.1%
- 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.
RunesConqueror83% · 3,351
SpellsFlash + Smite100% · 4,023- 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: Jungle farm (rank 77).
- Its most marked traitJungle farmtop23%69 · junglers: 66
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 late game
- Gold at 15 min
- Gold at 20 min
- Absorbs damage
- Plays teamfights
- Lets allies carry kills
- Team damage
- Invade
What it is not
- Little map pressure
- Few duels
- Little CC
- No poke
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 10 in lane, 19 in mid game and 38 in late game, out of 100 junglers.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, behind 55% of junglers against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among junglers · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 10 of 100 among junglers320 · median 383
- Damage in mid game · rank 19 of 100 among junglers724 · median 796
- Damage in late game · rank 38 of 100 among junglers1,031 · median 1,056
- Gold at 15 min · rank 38 of 100 among junglers-51 · median +6
- Gold at 20 min · rank 45 of 100 among junglers-4 · median +64
- Map pressure · rank 14 of 100 among junglers3.5 · median 4.7
- Absorbs damage · rank 72 of 100 among junglers1,069 · median 855
- Plays teamfights · rank 71 of 100 among junglers54% · median 52%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 18 of 100 among junglers17% · median 20%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 53 of 100 among junglersrank 53 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 17 of 100 among junglers0.4 · median 0.7
- Team damage · rank 44 of 100 among junglers16% · median 17%
- Jungle farm · rank 77 of 100 among junglers69 · median 66
- Invade · rank 30 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.
With
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.
- Jarvan IV5 games—SoloQ: 49.0% · 155 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%3,498 picks of 609,386ban 3.1% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments0.6%135 picks of 21,472ban 12.5% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.3%7 picks of 2,204bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
