Ambessa - Abilities + Gameplay (New Champion)

New Champion from Arcane is coming! Today showing you what Ambessa Medarda can do! x)

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Chapters:
0:00 Ambessa Preview
0:27 Ambessa Passive
0:54 Ambessa Q
1:15 Ambessa W
1:31 Ambessa E
1:45 Ambessa R
2:03 Strengths, weaknesses, how to counter, playstyle etc.

[freshlymemed]

High mobility, no mana, bruiser. She's a modern league champ alright.

[brendonoliveira]

Meanwhile blitz slows himself with his own skill

[yahyabenaicha]

They forget to add true dmg and stacks mechanics to her kit

[klatplos]

After casting an ability, your next attack has bonus damage, attack speed, refunds energy, cooks you lunch, drives you to work and makes your bed. yeah ok

[oomtar]

2:32
"use the crowd control for her"
>look at the screen
>unstoppable

[maltebrage]

Drops phone on floor, please dont be broken.
The phone :

[IMFERMO.]

Click video, "ambessa can dash 5 times", sighs, finishes video hopelessly

[kylianos]

Save your CC for the hyper mobile damage dealer!
Enemy comp: Ambessa, Lillia, Katarina, Samira, Pyke

[Koki-k]

League is evolving

We went from 200 years to 2000 years with this one

[SpiceCh]

"She should lose extended fights"
>shield
>slow
>3 dashes
>full resource refund if you auto between abilities

"Counter her with crowd control"
>is a fighter

Certified Rito

[thalesvondasos]

A Rioter really thought "What if Kalista, but bruiser?" and saw no problem with that

[joelgenio]

At this point I'm completely convinced that Riot doesn't care one bit what the average player says about champions

[IGiveTheBestTakes]

I REALLY want them to start streaming their design meetings. I want to know their arguments for why each of these abilities should exist.

[AnHoang-zydw]

I remembered the time when Zac yeeted himself through two walls was considered OP

[plasmafox]

Doctor: dashing Darius doesn't exist, he can't hurt you.
Dashing Darius:

[dsltr]

Every new champion is the reminder of why I quit playing league long time ago and should never go back.

[JackTFarmer]

"5 dashes in few seconds... "

Ok, Riot, chill, RELAX!

[BoogerFace_]

This is Ambessa, a champion with 4, 700 HP, 329 Armor, and 201 MR, has Unstoppable, a Shield, and goes over walls. Has Airborne, and the cooldown is only 1 second too. It costs 15 Mana. The W CD is even refreshed when he transforms. He has true damage on his passive. Then, when he stacks Armor and MR, he gets Ability Haste too, Ability Haste to his Q, and his spell casting speeds up. Then, he has an AD ratio, so his

[dotPoozer]

Meanwhile riot: we received very good reception for Vex because she's simple. We are never gonna do that again.

[runfight]

Aight so in short, reading the skills you linked in the description :

> Passive : When casting an ability/auto attack, she gains : attack range, bonus damage, attack speed, refund energy, dash
So she can dash as much as irelia, regen energy like lee sin, get attackrange like seraphine passive, and more DPS because why not

> Q : Trigger her passive, deals AoE damage scaling on target max hp, twice if she hits the 1st cast
She's an antitank and can't miss her spells

>W : Trigger her passive, then get shield, AoE damage, increasing if you block damages with it
So its lee sin's E1 and W1 on the same spell

>E : AoE damage that trigger twice if you dash with her passive and that applies 99% slow
An undodgeable thresh ult that cast twice

>R passive : Gains Armor penetration and life steal on her ability (life steal on everything)
So we have pantheon's R passive, combined with aatrox E that doesn't need to be on minions

>R active : Gets unstoppable, blinks behind targets in the ult, suppress them for 0.75sec, deal damage then stun them for 0.4 sec (so 1.15sec CC)
So we have a yone ult, in faster, with even more CC...

In short :
Riot combined irelia's dash, leesin's energy sustain, seraphine attack range, on an antitank "bruiser", that have max hp scaling damage, with aatrox sustain, pantheon's passive and having yone ult, and getting a spell that slow as much as thresh ult that cast twice...
Yeah, 200years game design, thanks riot (im glad that im playing yuumi, so I can try to make my ADCs tank this thing...)