What is the best build for Ambessa?

We do not publish a best build for Ambessa, and the reason is worth thirty seconds. The most recorded Ambessa top build on patch 16.14 is Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance and Eclipse, in 301 games. A finished item set is read at the end of the game, so a build only appears once the game ran long enough to buy it, and a game that runs long is usually a game you were winning. Any share of wins taken from those games leans high for that reason on its own, which is why there is not one in this answer. The page lists every recorded build with the games behind it.

What are the best runes for Ambessa?

The most recorded Ambessa top rune page on patch 16.14 takes Grasp of the Undying out of Resolve, with Shield Bash, Bone Plating and Revitalize beside it and Triple Tonic and Cosmic Insight out of Inspiration. Players who ran it won 48.0% of 1,093 games, range 45.1% to 51.0%. A rune page is locked in at champion select, so that share is not inflated by long games the way a build is, but it counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

What skill order should I use on Ambessa?

Recorded Ambessa top players max Q, then E, then W. 694 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Ambessa build, patch 16.14

3,730 games of Ambessa recorded on patch 16.14, across top, jungle, mid, bot and support.

Win rate

48.2% of top games this patch

Pick rate

3.3% of top games

Games

2,570 top, patch 16.14

Rank in role

41 of 122 top champions

Win impact against the average top pick on patch 16.14: -1.0 wins per 100 games (range -2.5 to 0.4) 2,570 games Pooled

What most Ambessa top players build, patch 16.14

Build Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance and Eclipse, and run Grasp of the Undying

The rune page they run

Resolve

Grasp of the Undying

Inspiration

Shards

1,093 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

The skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 694 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W		W												W	W		W	W
E			E					E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Max Q, then E, then W. The level by level count.

301 games finished this exact set. It is the set recorded most often, which is a fact about players rather than about the items.

Share of those games that were wins, in percent 54.5% (range 48.8-60.0) · 301 games · Measured

Games that finish a build are games that lasted, and lasting usually means winning, so this figure leans high before the items do anything. It is how those games went, not what the build does to your chances. How far that can bend a number.

Ambessa top is the role with the most recorded games on patch 16.14: 2,570 games, of which 1,239 were wins. That is the role this page leads with. Measured on this page: top, jungle and mid, the roles that cleared 30 recorded games.

wins -1.0 per 100 vs the top average · 2,570 games on 16.14 · first-time players measured (2,274 games) · no clear move vs 16.13 (-6.0, range -17.0 to +5.0)

The build above is the one recorded most often, nothing more. Every recorded build, with its own games and its own share, is in the build list, in the order players built them.

Why this answer

A champion and role pair needs 30 recorded games before we put a score or a win impact on it: under that, a handful of lucky games moves a win rate by ten points. The same floor applies to a single build and to a single rune page, and anything under it prints its games and no number.

The share on that figure says how the games went, not what the build does to you. Nothing on this page measures that; the method note at the end says why.

What do most Ambessa players build?

Item sets recorded on patch 16.14, most built first, never sorted by how the games went. The share is how many of a build's own games were wins; a build under 30 games shows its games and no share.

Ambessa, top

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 7 of them cleared 30 games.

Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance and Eclipse
54.5% 301 games
Black Cleaver, Death's Dance and Eclipse
60.7% 56 games
Death's Dance, Eclipse and Voltaic Cyclosword
47.3% 55 games
Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin and Eclipse
54.7% 53 games
Endless Hunger, Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance and Eclipse
63.8% 47 games
Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance and Eclipse
55.6% 36 games

A finished set is read at the end of the game, so every share here leans high: games that last long enough to finish a build are usually games that were already going well. How far that can bend a number.

Ambessa, jungle

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 2 of them cleared 30 games.

Death's Dance, Profane Hydra and Voltaic Cyclosword
55.6% 36 games
Death's Dance, Axiom Arc and Profane Hydra
60.6% 33 games

Ambessa, mid

2 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

Death's Dance, Profane Hydra and Voltaic Cyclosword
not enough games yet. 12 games so far, this needs 30. 12 games
Death's Dance, Eclipse and Voltaic Cyclosword
not enough games yet. 9 games so far, this needs 30. 9 games

What runes do most Ambessa players run?

Whole pages that players actually ran, most recorded first. A page is locked in at champion select, so long games do not inflate its share the way they inflate a build's; it still counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Ambessa, top

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 6 of them cleared 30 games.

Grasp of the Undying Resolve with Inspiration

1,093 games

Resolve

Grasp of the Undying

Inspiration

Shards

1,093 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Conqueror Precision with Resolve

512 games

Electrocute Domination with Resolve

457 games

Grasp of the Undying Resolve with Domination

296 games

Electrocute Domination with Inspiration

39 games

Conqueror Precision with Inspiration

30 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Grasp of the Undying: 48.8% 1,419 games
Conqueror: 45.9% 562 games
Electrocute: 47.9% 526 games
First Strike: 55.4% 65 games

5 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Ambessa, jungle

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 4 of them cleared 30 games.

Conqueror Precision with Inspiration

622 games

Precision

Conqueror

Inspiration

Shards

622 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

First Strike Inspiration with Precision

101 games

Conqueror Precision with Domination

30 games

First Strike Inspiration with Domination

30 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Conqueror: 50.1% 675 games
First Strike: 50.4% 131 games

5 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Ambessa, mid

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 2 of them cleared 30 games.

Electrocute Domination with Resolve

157 games

Domination

Electrocute

Resolve

Shards

157 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Conqueror Precision with Resolve

53 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Electrocute: 50.8% 177 games
Conqueror: 52.3% 65 games
First Strike: 50.0% 32 games

5 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

What skill order should I use?

Counted from recorded level-ups on patch 16.14, one player per game.

Max Q, then E, then W

694 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Ambessa top skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 694 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W		W												W	W		W	W
E			E					E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Max Q, then E, then W

252 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Ambessa jungle skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 252 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Max Q, then E, then W

Only 88 recorded games on patch 16.14. A soft read.

Ambessa mid skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 88 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W		W												W	W		W	W
E			E					E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

When do players buy each piece?

The pieces of the most recorded Ambessa top build, in the order players buy them. The time is the middle of the spread across every recorded game on patch 16.14, measured at the buy rather than at the end of the game: half the recorded buys of the item happen before it, half after.

Buy times, earliest first

Eclipse: 11:05 615 games
Spear of Shojin: 20:00 629 games
Death's Dance: 25:04 1,079 games

The bar is scaled to the latest piece of the set. Each item links to its own page, where the whole spread sits beside the games behind it.

Who counters Ambessa?

The opponents Ambessa top loses to most and the teammates Ambessa gains the most beside on patch 16.14. The chip is the edge in wins per 100 games, and the games behind it sit under the name.

Hardest opponents

103 more opponents sit under 50 games against Ambessa and are counted, not ranked. Every measured Ambessa opponent, with the full table

Best teammates

Every measured Ambessa teammate, with the full table

These numbers come from 108,616 ranked games we recorded on EUW, Korea and NA, found by following Diamond players and the people they play with. That is not every rank and it is not every region. Everything on this page is patch 16.14. Counted up to 24 July 2026.

How does Ambessa rank?

Every role we recorded Ambessa in on patch 16.14, scored or not. Win impact is measured against the average pick in that role on the same patch, and a role needs 30 recorded games before it is scored.

Ambessa by role

top C -1.0 wins per 100 games (range -2.5 to 0.4) 2,570 games Pooled: 47 2,570 games
jungle C -0.1 wins per 100 games (range -1.9 to 1.8) 837 games Pooled: 47 837 games
mid C 0.0 wins per 100 games (range -2.0 to 2.1) 306 games Pooled: 46 306 games
bot not enough games yet. 11 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 11 games
support not enough games yet. 6 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 6 games

Why no share of wins on this page says a build is good for Ambessa

A finished item set is read at the end of the game. A player who bought the first two items and lost at twenty minutes never finished the set, so they are not in its row. Everybody in the row lasted long enough to buy it, and lasting is most of what winning looks like. The share those games won is pushed up by that on its own, before the items do anything at all, and the push is largest on the most expensive builds and backwards on the ones you buy when a game is going badly.

We know the size of it. In simulation, with every item's real effect set to exactly zero, an item read at the end of the game shows about 92% as a sixth completed item. A defensive item with a real 5 point benefit shows about 20 points the wrong way, because it gets bought when a player is behind. The measurement is here.

So this page counts and labels rather than ranks. The estimate that answers the real question is taken at the moment of the buy, from the state the purchase happened in, and it runs in the desktop app because it needs the game in front of it.