Ambessa
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · NABans, presence and fearless: Ambessa across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 12.3%picked in 325 of 2,644 games
- Ban
- 22.2%434 bans over 1,958 games, against 6.6% in soloQ
Amateur: 2,664 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, NA. SoloQ Master+: 215,636 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 tournaments3 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 draftTaken at any point of the series.
What changes in tournaments?
3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Jungle.
- DraftPicked more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 1.1%
- SoloQ
- 0.7%
- DraftBanned more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 22.0%
- SoloQ
- 6.6%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 31.1 min
- SoloQ
- 27.9 min
How to play it?
Conqueror, then Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Death's Dance: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesConqueror77% · 2,913
SpellsFlash + Smite100% · 3,779
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.
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.
No pair measured in amateur play on this side.
Ban it or pick it?
Taken at any point of the series.
Pick rate as Jungle
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+0.7%3,129 picks of 431,269ban 6.6% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments1.1%41 picks of 3,686ban 22.0% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.3%7 picks of 2,204bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
24.4% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as Jungle- 1.8%G113 games of 733
- 2.6%G219 games of 733
- 1.9%G3+6 games of 316
Not enough series yet: published from 30.