Ambessa

Figures on this page are from League of Legends patch 16.18.1.

The win, pick, and ban rate figures here are a third-party League of Legends statistics provider's aggregation of match data that originates with Riot Games — Riot doesn't itself publish win-rate statistics. See how it works for the method, including the per-tier noise-width (σ) calibration Should I Dodge publishes on top of that raw data — how far a rate actually sits from meaningless, not something the provider itself measures.

Attack

9 / 10

Defense

2 / 10

Magic

0 / 10

Difficulty

10 / 10

Riot's own handcrafted 1-10 designer ratings, not measured gameplay stats.

Role	Win Rate	Pick Rate
Top	48.5%	2.6%

About 2.8% of games at this tier see Ambessa banned before anyone even picks a role — one number for the whole champion, not something that genuinely differs lane to lane. It's shown here alongside Ambessa's Top numbers, the highest-pick-rate role, purely because that's the row this page leads with. Why isn't this broken down by role?

Ambessa's Top win rate is 1.5 percentage points below an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.

Ambessa is tracked in exactly one role at this tier scope, Top — so there's no ambiguity below about which lane the rest of this page's per-tier, threat, and counters reporting describes.

Ambessa's Top Win Rate By Tier

Tier	Win Rate	Pick Rate	Edge (noise-widths)	Clears 0.5σ?
Iron	45.1%	1.6%	0.65σ	Yes
Bronze	47.3%	1.7%	0.44σ	No
Silver	48.1%	1.8%	0.33σ	No
Gold	48.6%	2.2%	0.26σ	No
Platinum	48.6%	2.7%	0.29σ	No
Emerald	48.8%	3.2%	0.26σ	No
Diamond	49.0%	4.0%	0.22σ	No
Master	48.9%	5.8%	0.23σ	No
Grandmaster	45.9%	8.0%	0.55σ	Yes
Challenger	47.2%	7.2%	0.23σ	No

Ambessa's Top win rate ranges from 45.1% at Iron to 49.0% at Diamond across the 10 of 10 ranked tiers with published data for this role — a 4.0-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.22σ at Diamond and 0.65σ at Iron, with only the Iron figure clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral. See how noise-widths are calculated and what they mean for each rank.

Should I Dodge's curated read has Ambessa's power curve as an early-game lean — a community-consensus judgment about where the champion's power peaks, not measured win-rate-by-duration data (the stats source doesn't publish that).

Ambessa's kit doesn't flag any of the seven threats Should I Dodge tracks for counter-building — healing, hard crowd control, burst, poke, sustained auto-attack damage, shielding, stealth — and that's a real verdict, not a gap in the table.

Should I Dodge maintains Ambessa's scaling lean and kit-threat reads above by hand, one champion at a time, across the whole roster — not generated from the win-rate numbers on this page, and not refreshed automatically when those numbers move.

Who Counters Ambessa?

Matchups below are for Ambessa's Top role -- its highest-pick-rate lane, played in 2.6% of its recorded games at this tier.

Champions That Counter Ambessa

Champion	Win Rate vs Ambessa	Edge (noise-widths)
Wukong	56.2%	1.29σ
Tryndamere	56.0%	1.25σ
Teemo	55.6%	1.17σ
Illaoi	55.5%	1.14σ
Singed	54.9%	1.03σ

Champions Ambessa Counters

Champion	Win Rate vs Ambessa	Edge (noise-widths)
K'Sante	45.7%	0.91σ
Ryze	46.8%	0.67σ
Cho'Gath	48.4%	0.33σ
Jayce	48.8%	0.26σ
Sion	48.8%	0.25σ

The stats source lists at most five champions in each direction for Ambessa: 5 listed as countering it here, 5 it counters back, with a tight, 1-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them — most matchups you could actually face in a real game simply aren't covered.

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Learn more: what a champion win rate actually means and why the same win rate means different things at different tiers.