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Everything for Ambessa Top on patch 16.11, pulled from real Emerald+ ranked games — the build path, rune pages, the counters worth banning, the strongest teammates, and Ambessa's win conditions.
Ambessa is an AD bruiser in the top, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a strong pick — a 50.6% win rate, 3.3% pick rate, 38,099 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Ambessa spikes hardest in the mid game around the two-to-three-item mark — that is the window to force fights and objectives.
How Ambessa wins: using Ambessa's mobility to catch isolated targets. The kit grades 8/10 mobility. Ambessa grades low on disengage (3/10), so don't take fights that turn on those dimensions.
The most-played core build is Eclipse, Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, which holds a 54.9% win rate across 3,509 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.
The matchup to respect is Warwick, where Ambessa sits at just 40.9%, the lane swings the other way into Mel (58.1%), and on the team side, Ambessa gains the most from a Karthus (+8.2% pair win rate).
Ambessa's highest-volume core items and rune page this patch. Select the enemy composition above and the build re-optimizes for that exact matchup.
Champions that beat Ambessa Top the most this patch, anywhere on the enemy team. Top ban targets.
Who Ambessa Top wants on the team: partners with the biggest positive swing on Ambessa's win rate this patch.
Best Jungle partners for Ambessa
Best Mid partners for Ambessa
Best ADC partners for AmbessaAmbessa is also played in these other roles this patch.
For full draft-time coaching with all 10 picks, use the Team Builder. To see Ambessa's tier on this patch, see the Tier List.
