Ambessa Build Guide for Wild Rift

How to play Ambessa

Ambessa is a highly mobile fighter you can play in the Solo Lane or Jungle. She combines the durability of a bruiser with the burst of an assassin, allowing her to dive into the enemy backline and kill vulnerable enemies. Ambessa's core gameplay revolves around her ability to dash between abilities while weaving basic attacks between each cast. Properly chaining her abilities with auto attacks allows her to maximize her damage output. She excels in extended fights where you can use her mobility to close the distance, reposition and pressure the enemy carry before they have a chance to react.

Be sure to check the alternative build at the top of the page for playing Ambessa in the jungle.

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Ambessa's Abilities

Drakehound's Step

(Passive)

Drakehound's Step: After using an ability, Ambessa can dash in the direction of the left joystick, and her next attack is faster, has longer range, deals bonus damage, and restores energy (stacks up to 3).

Drakehound's Step is all about weaving in auto attacks after each ability to maximize your damage output instead of just spamming abilities. Every ability is a movement tool that can be used to reposition, dodge skillshots or chase enemies. The passive's auto-attack can also help restore energy, allowing you to stay in extended fights.

Cunning Sweep / Sundering Slam

(1)

Cunning Sweep: Ambessa swings in a half-circle, dealing physical damage. Deals double damage to enemies at the edge of the strike. If you hit Cunning Sweep, it unlocks Sundering Slam.
Sundering Slam: Slams, dealing damage in a line. The first enemy takes increased damage, and others take reduced damage.

Position Cunning Sweep so enemies get hit at the edge for double damage, then follow up with Sundering Slam for maximum damage potential. This ability can grant Ambessa 2 dashes, making it the primary mobility tool to dash forward to win trades or dash away to safety.

Repudiation

(2)

Ambessa gains a shield and briefly blocks all crowd control effects, then releases a shockwave that deals physical damage. If it blocks an immobilizing effect, the shockwave deals increased damage.
Use Repudiation against incoming crowd control. Watch for stuns, roots or knockups before casting to deal bonus damage. In trades, use it mid-fight rather than at the start, so you can react to enemy abilities and try to hit multiple enemies for better value.

Lacerate

(3)

Ambessa spins around, dealing physical damage and slowing enemies. If you dash after casting, it recasts automatically at the end of the dash.

Lacerate is a great way to stick to enemies. The slow makes it easy for you to follow up with auto attacks and other abilities. In teamfights, try to aim to hit multiple enemies and use it to escape if needed by slowing anyone trying to catch you.

Public Execution

(Ultimate)

Passive: Ambessa gains armor penetration and her active abilities heal her.

Active: Ambessa blinks to the farthest enemy champion in a line, suppresses them, gains damage reduction and becomes unstoppable, then slams them, dealing physical damage and briefly stunning the enemy.

Public Execution is a great way to bypass the enemy's front line and gain easy access to the enemy's back line. It's great for both engaging and finishing off kills since it deals miss health damage. After hitting Public Execution, use your passive dash so you land in perfect range for Cunning Sweep's outer edge for the maximum amount of damage.

Ambessa Build Breakdown

Plated Steelcaps

Eclipse

Death's Dance

Serylda's Grudge

Spear of Shojin

Guardian Angel

Eclipse synergizes well with Ambessa's playstyle because she can trigger its passive through her abilities and auto attacks, giving her a bit of extra damage and a shield for extra survivability during trades.

Death's Dance helps Ambessa's survivability while aggressively diving into the enemy backline, converting part of the burst damage she takes into delayed damage, which gives her more time to heal through her abilities.

Serylda's Grudge boosts Ambessa's damage, and the passive allows her to slow enemies, making it easier for her to stick to enemies to deal more damage with her abilities and auto attacks.

For runes, we have the following:

Conqueror

Conqueror is great with Ambessa because she stacks it extremely quickly through her constant ability use and auto-attacks, with her passive giving her more damage and sustain in trades and teamfights.

Demolish

Demolish allows you to take early tower platings so you can get an early gold lead over your lane opponent. It can also help take towers quicker during the late game.

Second Wind

Second Wind helps Ambessa survive difficult lanes and improves her sustain, making laning much safer until she can look for an all-in.

Perseverance

Perseverance reduces incoming damage taken when she is crowd-controlled, helping her survive enemy burst and follow-up damage.

Sudden Impact

Sudden Impact's true damage will always be a possibility for Ambessa because she constantly uses dashes with her passive Drakehound's Step.

Flash

Ignite

Flash gives Ambessa another way of helping her stick to priority enemy carrys. It also gives her a reliable escape tool when her abilities are on cooldown.

Ignite helps Ambessa finish kills during her combo and when looking for aggressive all-ins, since she will always be at close range, where the extra damage makes a big difference.

Early Game

In the early game, Ambessa wants to focus on short trades, weaving her passive auto attacks between abilities for extra damage. Focus on hitting the outer edge of Cunning Sweep for poke, then decide whether you want to dash in to commit to a longer trade or dash out to safety. Try saving Repudiation defensively to block enemy crowd control or to survive ganks rather than engaging with it. Once you unlock your Ultimate, Ambessa becomes much stronger with her now inbuilt Armor Pen and healing from her abilities, so you can start to play more aggressively.

Late Game

In the late game, Ambessa becomes more of an assassin than a bruiser. Your job is to look for flanks and kill the enemy carrys instead of starting fights head-on. Look to dive the enemy ADC or Mage with Public Execution, then chain your other abilities while weaving passive auto attacks between every ability to maximize your damage output. If you are able to hit your full combo, you can one-shot the enemy carrys. Don't waste Repudiation too early; one of Ambessa's biggest weaknesses is crowd control, so save it to block crowd control when diving into the enemy backline.

Conclusion

Overall, Ambessa is all about patience and clean combos with her passive auto attacks and abilities rather than just trying to force every engagement opportunity you see. Mastering her dashes and timing on Repudiation will be key to mastering Ambessa.

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