Should You Main Ambessa? Tier A
Yes. Ambessa is tier A for maining. 7 Challenger and 31 Grandmaster mains across Korea, Europe West and North America, on 373,524 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Ambessa scores 9.87 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 9.87 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 7 Challenger · 31 Grandmaster · 156 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 373,524 games played worldwide · 4.05% pick rate · 3.00% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
But yes, anyway, we're going to go over to Ambessa. So, this is also going to be one of the champions that I rated pretty high on my scaling tier list if you wanted to check that out. It is, I guess, featured on the channel right now, but you can also, just go into tier lists on my playlist and check it out as well.
Best is going to be in a tier. So, this is some this is a champion that I think a lot of people do play. So is a decent play rate and then it's also a lot of challenger and grandmaster representation for that play rate.
So play rate is about 4% so that's double of AON and that is and then challenger GMs is 38 so seven challengers and 31 grand masters mains of Ambessa. This is the most This is like massive numbers by the way for play rate and yeah pick challenger GM representation and play pick rate. So I mean that's enough said.
I mean Ambessa is very strong in the meta. Scales really well. Very fun to play.
Yeah I would I would highly recommend this champion.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.