I have a hot take here. She *is* an assassin. She's energy type, has crazy AD ratios, very high mobility, an AD based shield, and supreme back-line access. Her kit probably favors bruiser builds right now, but I see base damages coming down and ratios going up in the future. In the meantime, she will be oppressive built with bruiser items instead of doing the job she should be doing, and assassin Ambessa is just going to be sitting there waiting for the inevitable nerfs to her base damages with increased ratios. Waiting for her chance to obliterate the back line like she's designed to do.
She has healing built into her ult, going assassin would be suboptimal because she would be too much of a glass cannon to be effective. She looks identical to Pantheon in build optimization because they both look like an assassin build would be the ideal, but in practice, both are way too squishy when built that way.
@@ZerglingOne1No she is not. What defines an assassin is the ability to go invisible, camouflage or quickly stealth into teamfights backline and hunt the carries down (may not escape after that). Her kit involves reflecting damage, shields which belong to AD bruisers like Irelia or Sett
I like how the "New" champ meta was centered around max health damage to having not only max health damage, but more and more dashes. What's next?? Able to blink after every auto?? The blinks are able to go through walls?? Become immune to damage after every 5 ability cast?? Every 3rd ult cast refreshes a summoner spell that's on cd??? When below 40% health, champion gains 150% move spd & gains 50 ability haste? After 25 kill streak can call tactical nuke to win game?????
IMO the big problem is the ult goes too far by about half for how good it is. It's either that or it just goes off too quickly. You should reasonably expect to see her with ward coverage and space her, but that just looks impossible with that ult range and timing. The closest thing is of course Vi's ult, but you get that time to do SOMETHING before Vi gets to you. With Malphite, at least you get the chance to flash it, this just looks like it's impossible to play against without a spell shield since you get about 0.1 seconds to react, and spell shields are generally garbage.
@@ZerglingOne1 I agree with you on the length of the ult being rather long for it to be healthy. However I was thinking if top, you'll probably see more ranged top laners and those who tend to counter dashes (poppy/cassio/vex). The reason for ranged is that the energy regen is tied to her aa and if she wants to dash to a champ she'll probably run a full rotation, get close but if kited, won't have a means to regen the energy to continue the damage rotation. It will be interesting to see how the player base learns to deal with her
just one more champ whos only contuner is hard cc (which counters everything) and about 10 dashes a fight so that you cant cc her. its perfectly balanced considering thats half the champs of league rn, and if you dont play a champ with 90 dashes thats on you bro skill issue ig
Looks like that if you're immobile and squishy, Poppy should wreck her and so should Vex, and since she doesn't have hard cc, statcheckers like Morde, Darius and Olaf shouldn't have too much problem either but yeah, this is just another champ of those, they probably dm'd the guy who made K'Sante and Smolder and asked for ideas lol
riot on his way to turn the game into a bullet hell (bc now u die within 3 effin abilities or even autos), they really want to steal the touhou community for their own
@@Rncko I mean... they keep doing it for a reason. Statistically the champions with dashes and high skill ceilings/mobility are played THE MOST lol. People find them the most fun (cause you can do 'more' with them) and they have higher highs than say... right clicking with Jinx. Its why Ezreal remains a top played adc regardless of his actual winrate and the meta lol. People complain online about them but guess what? Yall play them, buy skins for them, = riot makes more. Such is life.
yeah I tried to think of how to beat her as Morde but no shot. dashes around you, dodges all abilities, shields, sticks to you so you can't even run away, won't let you farm, no point in ulting her, literally 0 hope for tops without mobility
Put cooldowns on each dash or the more you dash, the lower your energy regen is until you disengage from the fight. And then based on how many dashes you used, determines how long you have to be disengaged before you're back to normal regen. Lore reason, she old.
There's only so many running animations with these sort of weapons. Fists ready forward? That's been done. Arms back, done. 1 arm ready forward and the other at guard? Done.
I appreciate how Noxian her gameplay feels in the way of champs like Darius where she lands one ability and then sticks to you permanently, it’s just that while Darius does so through unbearable cc, she does it through unbearable movement (33:21). But between her lack of tanky-ness and inability to deal with most cc, I’d still take her over k’sante any day, and wouldn’t mind if they had replaced him completely (although that top lane matchup is gonna look *hilarious*). Honestly, I only wish that her abilities were at least a bit delayed and swingy, and to really nerf everything outside the q sweet spot. Most stat check issues top lane come from abilities that can’t miss, or ones where if they aim at least a little bit correctly you CANNOT dodge, although this principle does work a bit better on Ambessa. Making slightly delayed abilities would help with counterplay and also nerf what I think is the main issue with champs who have lots of dashes: how fast they can dash. That said she’s really freaking fun, and her gameplay both feels really smooth and looks just as chaotic and flashy as you’d imagine it’d be on the battlefield. I wasn’t a fan of her E at first cause it seemed like a low damage “nothing” ability, but the more I play her the more I love how much it aids the idea of her being this experienced yet reckless whirlwind of blades. Any Noxian warrior should see red as soon as they hit the battlefield no matter how seasoned they are, and my god they sell this perfectly. It’s beautiful orderly button mashing with the occasional secondary q. Chefs kiss.
Yeah, no. There are a lot of design contradictions here. Built-in armor pen means target agnosticity(you deal consistent damage against squishies and tanks), percentage damage further skews that towards tankier targets. This produces a timer effect like Vayne(stay X seconds in range, you die). HOWEVER: you can't dip out of range due to infinite dashes and godly initiate range from ult She isn't squishy either(shields have decent high cd, but the spell vamp is a huge problem) You may argue that energy economy is the counterplay, but you can't stop her from auto-attacking either and she gains range. I'd expect nerfs to spell vamp and energy refund amount.
Legit any ranged character with a slow makes her useless unless she hits you with an ult. (She'll try to use her dashes to get to you, but theyre tiny so she wont, then wont have any energy cause she couldnt hit you to regen energy. Shes now a useless champ. Enjoy your free kill)
Every champion in the last 3 years makes me never want to come back to League, but it's still more fun to watch than it is to play. Winning the game is League of Legends, losing is an entirely different game.
Aside from the katarina going insane it was a very wholesome game, everyone seemed to be somewhat enjoying themselves. My favorite part was lux killing briar then dying right after and briar yelling BLEED!.
I think the easiest way to explain how Ambessa Ult knows the furthest target is that it's just a combination of the Vi airborne mechanic on the ult combined with the target detection of Leona's e, which also dashes her to the furthest target hit
It’s insane for this to come out right after VGU of one of the oldest kits in the game - teemo. He’s had like one major change in history? Right? Then we got this insane kit.
it's yasuo / riven / every champ released over the past decade all over again. completely over loaded kit, broken on release, then nerfed into the ground for a month before being buffed I really dont know what happened to this game, I played in the beta and for years afterwards by they just ruined it....
I can tell she's going to be a visual clarity disaster. She looks like Shyv, dashes like Sylas, abilities like K'Sante, and an Ult like Yone. I can tell people are going to be confused as hell trying to tell who does what in a fight.
She's gonna have the same problem that Atrox and Kayn had. there's nothing stopping her from building lethality. both of those champs got reworked because healing off of damage mean that the more damage you do the more you heal, then they became unkillable assassins. Dashes and her r range just means that she's great at target acquisition (unlike riven who also builds lethality sometimes). I do want to see how much damage she'll do with the 60% shred from r/grudge + full lethality. Probably will be a lot better than panth, he only had one dash(+ult) and they gave him a health scaling too.
If they're going to balance her properly, one thing is Ambessa should not get 3 charges for her passive attacks. As an auto-weaving combo bruiser, players should not be rewarded for playing the champ incorrectly. If you dash 3 times and don't AA between dashes, you should lose out on the extra damage and resource regen.
I think she could be balanced depending on how they balance the cd of the abilities as that largely inpacts the amount she can dash. I also think they shouldn't allow her to dash if her ability hits nothing with exception of w. Kind of like kalista has to AA to dash with exception of q.
Imma be honest normally im not a fan of complicated characters with a lot of dashes but im 100% gonna main this champ for a while, she looks mad fun to use and an absolute nighmare to go up against
how is this champ fair? she is a tank killer with suitability from spell vamp and dashes and kills squishes just as good. How do you counter this besides from sitting under tower until you get a gank?
@@TheCosmicAstro- how many average toplane champs could outdps her, kite a champ WITH 6 DASHES, outsustain her? she can literally just build ravenous first item if theyre a champ that outsustains her. maybe kled? i can tell youre the jg that tells a toplaner to play safe when theyre getting 4 man dove under turret.
@evanf.4801 i actually play both top and jungle lol. Not a one trick pony unlike some. Also just from how you ended your statement i can tell its clear you're not coming at this in good faith so I won't waste my time when you can look at the champ roster and answer the question for yourself.
Had my best league game ever with her yesterday. My very first 6 digit damage game. I had more than double the damage of any other player in the match. My team was struggling hard but I single handedly saved the game. Went 23/1/15 She's my favorite champ and even when they nerf her into the ground, I do hope they at least keep the core aspects of her kit so I can at least keep having fun. These are my kinda champs.
@16:21 Riot games " Just CC her and she dies easily !" Meanwhile, dashing every CC ability in the game and requiring almost 10 second of CC to kill her with NO TANK ITEMS~!!!!!!
As a Diana main, ARAMpleb, that amount of dashing is what I wanted for Diana, because of the lore when she takes out the people confronting her about the moon. Reduce the damage on q and make her passive a stacking debuff that detonates on on W dash or ult.
Having like 4 dashes on her basic abilities makes her a pretty solid sion counter. You kinda are forced to short Q if you ever wanna damage her with it. Also the ult passive granting armour pen and her itemization with BC synergizing makes it a pretty solid counter pick. I imagine Sion is forced to go lethality with short Q's in order to have a chance with that MU. Oh and I just thought, if Sion ever ults away then Ambessa ult blocks it - and she's classed as 'unstoppable' during the cast; meaning Sion's ult either doesn't knock her up, or part of the knockup is eaten up by the unstoppable duration.
One thing i like is not only the adaptation of a character from the show, but also shows just how strong and ruthless Noxians are, they should have a theme like Demacians have more armor and Noxians more ad or somthing
They do. Demacians tend to gain shields and defensively oriented CCs (Lux against meleers, Poppy against closeups, Garen against mages, Xin Zhao's Duel Simulator), and Noxians tend to have extremely heavy hitting kits and offensive CCs (Darius's Hook+Slow, Draven's Axe Of Dispersion, Swain's Pull and long-range slow). They also have mechanical identities in LoR.
Why would I ever play a champion like, say, Chogath when this exists? Why play Renekton if this exists? Holy hell the power creep is completely off the rails. Thought about getting back into league but this keeps me away.
@@williamvdsluijs8622 Silence and the Q knock up + slow shuts her down quite a lot. Cho also is a meat wall with so much unavoidable damage on his E and R, that she can't do much with a 2 sec silence on her head.
the traditional top laner tanks seem to be very under geared to perform against the new top laners who have a million dashes. By the time Sion did like 2 skills, Ambessa did 6-8 or more depending on the dashes and what not. The old characters are simply going to get overwhelmed.
This champ is going to be super brutal. Players who can land the empowered autos for the energy regain are going to cook their opponents, and players who can’t are going to get rolled. I like the spacing and then line accuracy required in random by ability 1, I like the short duration of the shield, I like how the aoe is a multifaceted dash catalyst that either had to be used to catch up in a chase or deal damage in the short range (which is if it’s hittable your optimized Q range is not easy) and the ult is a neat parody of Yone. The champ isn’t too tanky for the damage it does, and point click CC just insta turns the champ off. I like how there’s a lot it can do, but it feels weird this and Ksante exist in the same game as champs like garen (who by comparison is super simple). This champ has cool design and I can see the weaknesses they built in, but it will absolutely face roll enemies when in the hands of people who can competently weave in autos. The energy economy of this champ should get needed if anything.
the only thing that makes me think she wont be completely broken, is that she doesn't have any hard cc in her basic abilities, or dmg scaling with defensive stats. But the combination of %max health dmg and %pen(which makes her very easy to itemize into everything), a million dashes, no mana, and built in vamp, is insane.
Pretty sure her ult acts like Leona Q - it dashes to the last champion hit (not targeted). If an enemy champion was in it, but moved out of the way before it hit, it would pick the next closer champion that WAS hit to dash to. It's unlikely because, unlike Leona Q, the effect occurs very, very quickly, but it should theoretically work like that.
I can see her going hp and bloodmail. Also, you have to remember that she will probably have a low win-rate since she just got released, which means they're gonna buff her before people figure her out.
First of all, i did not even know that riot planned to put another champ. For what i am looking, she has the shyvanna's walk + the weapons lookalike of renekton + k'sante dashes AF and some thinga kinda reminds me of sylas animations. So to conclude, she is the definition of hell.
Riot game Dev: let's make new champion . Gives infinite dash , cool moves , broken skill. LOL community: gives us item that counter infinite dash . Riot Dev: Nahhh we don't care .
- Why does making a new champions takes so long? How many do you work on? - One - SO WHY TF SO LONG?? - We're making one but he has 20 in his kit, dashes after every auto, deals holy a lot of damage with skills, has ult of ksante/kiana/red kayn combined... And we don't have money for another voice actor so it's actually illaoi
She feels like death by 1000 Cuts instead of having really high damage abilities, but you were against a Sion that just had so much heath to cut through! Was a Good Game and Cool First Look at the Champ!
So, just to summarize: All abilities give a dash afterwards. And the ult is a dash itself. So 5 dashes on one champ. I feel like Riot is making a statement
I was so tired yesterday that i thoght this was shyvannas for 20 min before sleeping.. didnt look at thumbnail. Was like "her passive and so sounds weird but okayy" "didnt knew that about her"
just a few other champs mashed into her, Red Kayn and Aatrox, Percentage health damage on abilities with physical vamp passive Runs like GP and shyvanna Lee Sin, Energy back on auto attack after ability Pantheon and Darius, Flat percentage armor pen passive. Pantheon more because its the same number on ult passive Vi and K'sante obviously, kalista and Sylas obviously, Mini Fiora riposte with Riven dash shield Camille damage on outer edge of ability but they just like outer edge = more damage in most champs tho. Truly a smorgasbord of top lane champs mostly
Can you do Attack speed and Crit Abessa? Items for example, kraken, essence river, experimental hexplate and cleaver for shredding armor, so you could actually assassin champs instantly like R then spam auto with dashing abilities. Or just go with Crit build and spam 3 abilities and delete someone in a second. And when charges on passive are full it gives 50 % attack speed and additional damage so yeah attack speed would be very good on her
Riot should give her a skin that lets her wield slippers instead of blades. Imagine a mother chasing you down, and slapping you with slippers.
This is gold
Call it Le Chancla!
Its more like angry babuschka is chasing you because you disliked her food 😂😂
Steven He LoL crossover would be hilarious
That's the way the community should be
Riot looked at k'sante and said nahhh not enough dashes we need more
Haha. True. 😂
Riot: What if Ksante Riven And Yone Had a Child
@@MonodySeraphine😂😂😂
@@SK-qm1sg she has Kalista dashes so Add her
as a sion main i cry every time he dashes away from sions Q
200 years
when the Bruisers become more mobile then the actual Asassins.
I have a hot take here. She *is* an assassin. She's energy type, has crazy AD ratios, very high mobility, an AD based shield, and supreme back-line access. Her kit probably favors bruiser builds right now, but I see base damages coming down and ratios going up in the future. In the meantime, she will be oppressive built with bruiser items instead of doing the job she should be doing, and assassin Ambessa is just going to be sitting there waiting for the inevitable nerfs to her base damages with increased ratios. Waiting for her chance to obliterate the back line like she's designed to do.
She has healing built into her ult, going assassin would be suboptimal because she would be too much of a glass cannon to be effective. She looks identical to Pantheon in build optimization because they both look like an assassin build would be the ideal, but in practice, both are way too squishy when built that way.
@@ZerglingOne1No she is not. What defines an assassin is the ability to go invisible, camouflage or quickly stealth into teamfights backline and hunt the carries down (may not escape after that). Her kit involves reflecting damage, shields which belong to AD bruisers like Irelia or Sett
@@ZerglingOne1 She is more like a diver than assassin, because once she went in, she will have quite hard time to get out.
@@vindalhelmnot with that many dash
So, how many champs can be mashed into a new champs kit?
Rito: Yes.
Yepp like 5 champs in 1
Do we still need to adjust the team in a team game?
Rito gumes: no
I like how the "New" champ meta was centered around max health damage to having not only max health damage, but more and more dashes. What's next?? Able to blink after every auto?? The blinks are able to go through walls?? Become immune to damage after every 5 ability cast?? Every 3rd ult cast refreshes a summoner spell that's on cd??? When below 40% health, champion gains 150% move spd & gains 50 ability haste? After 25 kill streak can call tactical nuke to win game?????
Fifth ult use just nukes/orbital-beam's the core for instant win.
We reworked kayle into a new champion. instantly wins at the 20 minute mark@@adtrlthegamer7449
Delete this comment, Riot may read this!
@@erikastrom4144 I was about to say this, dont give them ideas !
@@LadyHermes If they haven't-
This looks absolutely miserable to play against
IMO the big problem is the ult goes too far by about half for how good it is. It's either that or it just goes off too quickly. You should reasonably expect to see her with ward coverage and space her, but that just looks impossible with that ult range and timing. The closest thing is of course Vi's ult, but you get that time to do SOMETHING before Vi gets to you. With Malphite, at least you get the chance to flash it, this just looks like it's impossible to play against without a spell shield since you get about 0.1 seconds to react, and spell shields are generally garbage.
@@ZerglingOne1 I agree with you on the length of the ult being rather long for it to be healthy. However I was thinking if top, you'll probably see more ranged top laners and those who tend to counter dashes (poppy/cassio/vex). The reason for ranged is that the energy regen is tied to her aa and if she wants to dash to a champ she'll probably run a full rotation, get close but if kited, won't have a means to regen the energy to continue the damage rotation.
It will be interesting to see how the player base learns to deal with her
just one more champ whos only contuner is hard cc (which counters everything) and about 10 dashes a fight so that you cant cc her. its perfectly balanced considering thats half the champs of league rn, and if you dont play a champ with 90 dashes thats on you bro skill issue ig
@@sandkang827literally nasus and darius players complaining about getting caited, bro just go renekton then lol 😂
Looks like that if you're immobile and squishy, Poppy should wreck her and so should Vex, and since she doesn't have hard cc, statcheckers like Morde, Darius and Olaf shouldn't have too much problem either but yeah, this is just another champ of those, they probably dm'd the guy who made K'Sante and Smolder and asked for ideas lol
Ambessa walks into the bar
There's no counter
This was good ty
Ambessa dashes into a bar, and jumps over the counter.
@@wiktorsson5953 again, there is no counter. She dashes and becomes a counter instead.
@@Ninaka37poppy is the counter my guy
ahh, the og yorick joke from LoL Tribunal. wish we still had the tribunal.
Riot try not to make a champion with 504858 dashes challenge: impossible
riot on his way to turn the game into a bullet hell (bc now u die within 3 effin abilities or even autos), they really want to steal the touhou community for their own
@@killestone
You have to admit, Touhou bullet hell game mode in League would be hilarious.
@@christiandelcarmen1278 basically swarm but theyre ranged
@@christiandelcarmen1278closest we’ve gotten is Doombots
@@christiandelcarmen1278 we need custom gamemodes soooo bad its not even funny, if dota can do it so can league
Literally the definition of madness is to do the same thing and expect a different outcome.....
More like they are saying the previous "madness" was a SUCCESS & went double down on the dosage this round.
that is insanity
@@Amyleeeeea dear the words are synonyms
@@Rncko I mean... they keep doing it for a reason. Statistically the champions with dashes and high skill ceilings/mobility are played THE MOST lol. People find them the most fun (cause you can do 'more' with them) and they have higher highs than say... right clicking with Jinx. Its why Ezreal remains a top played adc regardless of his actual winrate and the meta lol. People complain online about them but guess what? Yall play them, buy skins for them, = riot makes more. Such is life.
@@skylerfreeman1173I don't play any mobile champs lol. My champ pool is all older tanks, juggernauts and mages
I dont know how a champion with 5 dashes can ever be balanced. 2 from her q, 1 from w, 1 from e and 1 from ult. Riot really has no creativity
6 actually, ult is a huge dash by itself and she can dash once again right after casting it
yeah I tried to think of how to beat her as Morde but no shot. dashes around you, dodges all abilities, shields, sticks to you so you can't even run away, won't let you farm, no point in ulting her, literally 0 hope for tops without mobility
Put cooldowns on each dash or the more you dash, the lower your energy regen is until you disengage from the fight. And then based on how many dashes you used, determines how long you have to be disengaged before you're back to normal regen.
Lore reason, she old.
@@christiandelcarmen1278 still makes laning phase miserable but it's better than nothing
@@christiandelcarmen1278tbh as zwag said if you cc her u kinda shut her down sion cc however takes forever to land this seems fair to me
yes, indeed, kalista riven
More like kalista-renekton/sylas-vi.
@@john_w4ng you forgot k-sante :'D
Kalista Pantheon. She can only kite aggresively, she can't escape as freely as Riven
And Briar also
Kalista-Riven-Pantheon-Sylas-K'Sante-Vinekton
It looks like shyvana running animation.
cant unsee that
RITO PLS
There's only so many running animations with these sort of weapons. Fists ready forward? That's been done. Arms back, done. 1 arm ready forward and the other at guard? Done.
she has another running animation that looks live vi too sometimes/when she running out of base :D
Riot removes aatrox double dash but gives her infinite dashes for free, makes sense
Hey there brother.
Exactly, it's not so difficult to give him the double dash again, but riot doesn't think
yeah but aatrox has 3 knockups and a knock back in his basic kit. ambessa has no hard cc in her basic kit
@@shieldgenerator7 Knock back ? You’re talking about the W that works 1% of the time ?
@@RaLoPL yeah the chain thing that pulls them into the center
Riot said "counterplay is save your cc
Proceeds to be unstoppable across maokai AND sion ult.
exactly, timing her shit right and shes unstoppable like ksante with insane damage
Not unstoppable. Her ult makes her blink. So she appeared behind Maokai and dodged the cc. They were idiots for lining up for her ult.
@@Melody-to8wg if you play the video at x.25 speed you can see she actually gets the unstoppable label
10:57 the moment in question
one cc ability, perfect, now while thats on cooldown she will dash 5 more times
Idk thanos is looking a bit kratos-ey
Tf blue comment on TH-cam 😭
Blue comment on TH-cam before gta 6
No jdas el comentario azul aquí también?
Didn't you play K'sante recently? Well I don't mind seeing him again 😂😂
This isn't a new skin for him?!?!?
I appreciate how Noxian her gameplay feels in the way of champs like Darius where she lands one ability and then sticks to you permanently, it’s just that while Darius does so through unbearable cc, she does it through unbearable movement (33:21). But between her lack of tanky-ness and inability to deal with most cc, I’d still take her over k’sante any day, and wouldn’t mind if they had replaced him completely (although that top lane matchup is gonna look *hilarious*). Honestly, I only wish that her abilities were at least a bit delayed and swingy, and to really nerf everything outside the q sweet spot. Most stat check issues top lane come from abilities that can’t miss, or ones where if they aim at least a little bit correctly you CANNOT dodge, although this principle does work a bit better on Ambessa. Making slightly delayed abilities would help with counterplay and also nerf what I think is the main issue with champs who have lots of dashes: how fast they can dash. That said she’s really freaking fun, and her gameplay both feels really smooth and looks just as chaotic and flashy as you’d imagine it’d be on the battlefield. I wasn’t a fan of her E at first cause it seemed like a low damage “nothing” ability, but the more I play her the more I love how much it aids the idea of her being this experienced yet reckless whirlwind of blades. Any Noxian warrior should see red as soon as they hit the battlefield no matter how seasoned they are, and my god they sell this perfectly. It’s beautiful orderly button mashing with the occasional secondary q. Chefs kiss.
i dont see how her E is a nothing ability, it's literally a Stride Breaker that you can activate twice in one cast
Yeah, no. There are a lot of design contradictions here. Built-in armor pen means target agnosticity(you deal consistent damage against squishies and tanks), percentage damage further skews that towards tankier targets. This produces a timer effect like Vayne(stay X seconds in range, you die).
HOWEVER:
you can't dip out of range due to infinite dashes and godly initiate range from ult
She isn't squishy either(shields have decent high cd, but the spell vamp is a huge problem)
You may argue that energy economy is the counterplay, but you can't stop her from auto-attacking either and she gains range.
I'd expect nerfs to spell vamp and energy refund amount.
i think the amount of energy refund is 100% the problem she never has to worry about running out of energy as long as u aa
Legit any ranged character with a slow makes her useless unless she hits you with an ult.
(She'll try to use her dashes to get to you, but theyre tiny so she wont, then wont have any energy cause she couldnt hit you to regen energy. Shes now a useless champ. Enjoy your free kill)
Very hard to limit test this champ when he's playing against bots
@@TheCosmicAstro- is the Ambassa a 7yo Bronze III in your narrative?
@lucianoscelza853 another one that doesnt know how to use their brain. League never disappoints
Every champion in the last 3 years makes me never want to come back to League, but it's still more fun to watch than it is to play. Winning the game is League of Legends, losing is an entirely different game.
Even Hwei ? I feel like he's decently balanced and not particularly unsatisfying to play against.
@@math9172 I havent played against Briar, No Hwei, i think it was some time after Hip hop africa spectacular, K'sante.
ten years
Aside from the katarina going insane it was a very wholesome game, everyone seemed to be somewhat enjoying themselves. My favorite part was lux killing briar then dying right after and briar yelling BLEED!.
Ult is a simple hit detection. It teleports you to the last champ hit.
not even "last champ hit" because it's not really a projectile, only need to detect the champion hit farthest away from Ambessa
@@nicocee2431 Sorry I wasn't perfectly precise, and thank you for the unnecessary correction.
@@g0dsf3ar71 bro took it personally
@@nicocee2431 it was an unnecessary correction.
@@lobsterfulyes9652 ☝️🤓
I think the easiest way to explain how Ambessa Ult knows the furthest target is that it's just a combination of the Vi airborne mechanic on the ult combined with the target detection of Leona's e, which also dashes her to the furthest target hit
Renekton Reskin with those blades
Looks like they use the same model
renekton's blade and shyvana running style and voila
16:10 gotta give em props, that was some masterful CC layering
7:20 I was like... her recall animation sounds a lot like the Sonic soundtrack lol
It’s insane for this to come out right after VGU of one of the oldest kits in the game - teemo. He’s had like one major change in history? Right? Then we got this insane kit.
Ambessa👤4,700 HP💪Bonus attack range🤷♂Bonus Attack Speed💦 Unstoppable🚫A Shield 🛡 Goes over walls🧱Infinite Dashes🌪Cooldown is 0 seconds too🕐 It costs no Mana🧙♂
it's yasuo / riven / every champ released over the past decade all over again.
completely over loaded kit, broken on release, then nerfed into the ground for a month before being buffed
I really dont know what happened to this game, I played in the beta and for years afterwards by they just ruined it....
That ult passive scales with lifesteal
I was waiting so long for him to realize that while reading the ult tooltip
@Demonyx613 I think I might have been the reason he made the video about it. 🤷🏻♂️
She’s literally sylas with but merged with Ksante but even better, how fun
shes highkey 5+ champions mixed in one
Gotta love melee casters that basically force you to land AAs between abilities and reward you for it. It's not like you shouldn't do it anyway!
darius (look) + renekton (weapon) + sylas (skills) + shyvana (walk animation) + kalista (dashes)
I can tell she's going to be a visual clarity disaster. She looks like Shyv, dashes like Sylas, abilities like K'Sante, and an Ult like Yone. I can tell people are going to be confused as hell trying to tell who does what in a fight.
imagine if you get all of them on the same team
She's gonna have the same problem that Atrox and Kayn had. there's nothing stopping her from building lethality. both of those champs got reworked because healing off of damage mean that the more damage you do the more you heal, then they became unkillable assassins. Dashes and her r range just means that she's great at target acquisition (unlike riven who also builds lethality sometimes). I do want to see how much damage she'll do with the 60% shred from r/grudge + full lethality. Probably will be a lot better than panth, he only had one dash(+ult) and they gave him a health scaling too.
Oh great, another ksante.
If they're going to balance her properly, one thing is Ambessa should not get 3 charges for her passive attacks. As an auto-weaving combo bruiser, players should not be rewarded for playing the champ incorrectly. If you dash 3 times and don't AA between dashes, you should lose out on the extra damage and resource regen.
“Perfectly balanced, as all things should be”
You mean this one's balanced, the rest of the champs simply aren't? 😅
@@williamvdsluijs8622 More like, my quote is Riots perspective until they decide otherwise. 🤣
She’s still not as bad as K’Sante. No one is, really.
I think she could be balanced depending on how they balance the cd of the abilities as that largely inpacts the amount she can dash.
I also think they shouldn't allow her to dash if her ability hits nothing with exception of w. Kind of like kalista has to AA to dash with exception of q.
“Did Zwag Xerath get the first 6 CS?”
No, he missed a melee minion
Lose Streak: 1
thank you santa
This is fucking cringe, cut this shit out.
Riot tries to say they aren't a bunch of fools and then they make another champ with the whole kit being dashes its such a joke
Imma be honest normally im not a fan of complicated characters with a lot of dashes but im 100% gonna main this champ for a while, she looks mad fun to use and an absolute nighmare to go up against
You are the problem with league but at least u are honest
I can see people picking vayne or quinn into this champ. I'll be going tank anivia and stay the fuck away lmao.
Thanks riot for giving me another reason to not return to your game
how is this champ fair? she is a tank killer with suitability from spell vamp and dashes and kills squishes just as good. How do you counter this besides from sitting under tower until you get a gank?
Slows, CC, Kiting, Higher DPS, Outsustain.
Plenty of ways. People are just rage mode every new champ.
@@TheCosmicAstro- how many average toplane champs could outdps her, kite a champ WITH 6 DASHES, outsustain her? she can literally just build ravenous first item if theyre a champ that outsustains her. maybe kled? i can tell youre the jg that tells a toplaner to play safe when theyre getting 4 man dove under turret.
@evanf.4801 i actually play both top and jungle lol. Not a one trick pony unlike some.
Also just from how you ended your statement i can tell its clear you're not coming at this in good faith so I won't waste my time when you can look at the champ roster and answer the question for yourself.
@@TheCosmicAstro- what's your rank?
@@TheCosmicAstro-i like how your answer is just a generic non-answer without actually tackling the specifics of how to counter her
12:57 If Riven and Sylas had a baby, it would be this old woman.
- Zwag, 2024
A game whitout dashes, was once possible.
Had my best league game ever with her yesterday. My very first 6 digit damage game. I had more than double the damage of any other player in the match. My team was struggling hard but I single handedly saved the game. Went 23/1/15
She's my favorite champ and even when they nerf her into the ground, I do hope they at least keep the core aspects of her kit so I can at least keep having fun. These are my kinda champs.
I think you should try this chsmpion in full crit, like navori and ie
With tons of ability haste!
8:50
- takes 1 turret hit
- takes 1 sion's auto
- proceeds to dash the shit out of turret range, deal 700dmg onto sion and not even lose 1hp
@16:21 Riot games " Just CC her and she dies easily !" Meanwhile, dashing every CC ability in the game and requiring almost 10 second of CC to kill her with NO TANK ITEMS~!!!!!!
She got cc against tank champs with no high damage.
@@GrR-c4s true in the case of that Sion. He was bad.
@@lucianoscelza853 meaning, if you cc her near a high damage long range champ you kill her quicker
@@GrR-c4s which is true in every single scenario in every single game with CCs and high damage long range stuff (killing quicker)
When is the male equivalent champion Ambatukam ?
Full Lethality and Hexplate on her sounds fun
With Axiom. Yeah that was my thought as well.
As a Diana main, ARAMpleb, that amount of dashing is what I wanted for Diana, because of the lore when she takes out the people confronting her about the moon. Reduce the damage on q and make her passive a stacking debuff that detonates on on W dash or ult.
Apparently every new champion riot releases is broken, you'd think they'd do something to fix that
they need you to spend that money on it before they nerf it after a week
Wouldn't be a Zwag video without missing the first cannon minion.
When does she come out ?
6th of Nov
@@leonchris6401 alright awesome appreciate it bud !
Having like 4 dashes on her basic abilities makes her a pretty solid sion counter. You kinda are forced to short Q if you ever wanna damage her with it. Also the ult passive granting armour pen and her itemization with BC synergizing makes it a pretty solid counter pick. I imagine Sion is forced to go lethality with short Q's in order to have a chance with that MU.
Oh and I just thought, if Sion ever ults away then Ambessa ult blocks it - and she's classed as 'unstoppable' during the cast; meaning Sion's ult either doesn't knock her up, or part of the knockup is eaten up by the unstoppable duration.
Kratos looks sick
red kayn (% hp dmg + sustain fom dmg) + ksante + kalista dashes + darius armor pen + yone ulti .
Who ever made this must be a rioter .
Her having energy would be an amazing balancing measure- if her autoattacks didnt give a ludicrous 40 energy back at level 1
One thing i like is not only the adaptation of a character from the show, but also shows just how strong and ruthless Noxians are, they should have a theme like Demacians have more armor and Noxians more ad or somthing
They do. Demacians tend to gain shields and defensively oriented CCs (Lux against meleers, Poppy against closeups, Garen against mages, Xin Zhao's Duel Simulator), and Noxians tend to have extremely heavy hitting kits and offensive CCs (Darius's Hook+Slow, Draven's Axe Of Dispersion, Swain's Pull and long-range slow). They also have mechanical identities in LoR.
Why would I ever play a champion like, say, Chogath when this exists? Why play Renekton if this exists? Holy hell the power creep is completely off the rails. Thought about getting back into league but this keeps me away.
Cho can silence her into oblivion and she cant dash anymore. The Q and just whack her
@@ZirixStrarstrider I thought Cho had cooldowns. Any second this champ isn't cced is a second too many
@@williamvdsluijs8622 Silence and the Q knock up + slow shuts her down quite a lot. Cho also is a meat wall with so much unavoidable damage on his E and R, that she can't do much with a 2 sec silence on her head.
Nah bro Cho is getting ripped a new one by this. After he exhausts his cool down he will need to run.
@@silversrc which is true against any other bruisers in the game, but ok
you can really feel the desperation in the video's title. The running-low-on-engagement clickbait special.
Try her jg next
12:57 if riven and sylas has an baby while ambessa is actually older than your mum is crazy ☠️💀
She reminds me of God of war
Kratos?
Looks like vex is gonna have hwr passive permanently up with this one
Sooooooooo she's Rells relative it looks like who walks like Shyvana?
the traditional top laner tanks seem to be very under geared to perform against the new top laners who have a million dashes. By the time Sion did like 2 skills, Ambessa did 6-8 or more depending on the dashes and what not. The old characters are simply going to get overwhelmed.
This champ is going to be super brutal. Players who can land the empowered autos for the energy regain are going to cook their opponents, and players who can’t are going to get rolled. I like the spacing and then line accuracy required in random by ability 1, I like the short duration of the shield, I like how the aoe is a multifaceted dash catalyst that either had to be used to catch up in a chase or deal damage in the short range (which is if it’s hittable your optimized Q range is not easy) and the ult is a neat parody of Yone. The champ isn’t too tanky for the damage it does, and point click CC just insta turns the champ off. I like how there’s a lot it can do, but it feels weird this and Ksante exist in the same game as champs like garen (who by comparison is super simple). This champ has cool design and I can see the weaknesses they built in, but it will absolutely face roll enemies when in the hands of people who can competently weave in autos. The energy economy of this champ should get needed if anything.
the only thing that makes me think she wont be completely broken, is that she doesn't have any hard cc in her basic abilities, or dmg scaling with defensive stats. But the combination of %max health dmg and %pen(which makes her very easy to itemize into everything), a million dashes, no mana, and built in vamp, is insane.
Does she have bonus monster damage ?
As far as her ult goes, it seems to work exactly like leonas grab stun. The last enemy hit is the target dashed to
this is an end for those champions that don't have or less mobilities 25:52
Regarding ravenous if someone hasnt pointed it out yet, her R omnivamp scales with lifesteal, so she doubles up on the hp gained
Would it be viable going Trinity first? Instead of Eclipse
her walking animation is just Shyvana
I was camping TH-cam for this video , you videos are addictive
The fact they gave her a Katar style weapon makes me very happy. Even though they added chains on them to give it range.
I can feel all the assassin players and Riven mains being happy with this champ
Poor Sion. He had no idea how to play against her. Imagine having to go up against a champion with absolutely no information about.
Pretty sure her ult acts like Leona Q - it dashes to the last champion hit (not targeted). If an enemy champion was in it, but moved out of the way before it hit, it would pick the next closer champion that WAS hit to dash to. It's unlikely because, unlike Leona Q, the effect occurs very, very quickly, but it should theoretically work like that.
Ambessa's kit:
Passive= kalista + riven passive
Q1= old reworked rengar Q
Q2= long ranged ksante Q
W= malphite e + garen w
E= sylas aoe auto
R= yone + vi R
running animation= shyvana
no walking animation
nice job riot
I see her like the "Master Yi Problem" : decent when not fed, a berserker monster when fed....especially early!
I can see her going hp and bloodmail. Also, you have to remember that she will probably have a low win-rate since she just got released, which means they're gonna buff her before people figure her out.
The briar missing basically every ult had cracking up.😂
Shivana’s walking,illaoi’s body plus renek’s weapon=new champ
First of all, i did not even know that riot planned to put another champ. For what i am looking, she has the shyvanna's walk + the weapons lookalike of renekton + k'sante dashes AF and some thinga kinda reminds me of sylas animations. So to conclude, she is the definition of hell.
How much mechanics can we put in ONE character?
Riot : Yes
Would the BOTRK current health damage stack with her max health damage?
Riot game Dev: let's make new champion . Gives infinite dash , cool moves , broken skill.
LOL community: gives us item that counter infinite dash .
Riot Dev: Nahhh we don't care .
- Why does making a new champions takes so long? How many do you work on?
- One
- SO WHY TF SO LONG??
- We're making one but he has 20 in his kit, dashes after every auto, deals holy a lot of damage with skills, has ult of ksante/kiana/red kayn combined... And we don't have money for another voice actor so it's actually illaoi
Ambessa is if Ksante and Renekton had a baby
She feels like death by 1000 Cuts instead of having really high damage abilities, but you were against a Sion that just had so much heath to cut through! Was a Good Game and Cool First Look at the Champ!
So, just to summarize: All abilities give a dash afterwards. And the ult is a dash itself. So 5 dashes on one champ.
I feel like Riot is making a statement
for years the rivens wanted a scaling perk to allow them to keep up with these ever growing tanks, riot answered by instead making a whole new champ
I was so tired yesterday that i thoght this was shyvannas for 20 min before sleeping.. didnt look at thumbnail. Was like "her passive and so sounds weird but okayy" "didnt knew that about her"
Can you build tank like k'sante and still do tons of damage?
probably not, ksante have some Armor, hp ad mr scaling, and that became damage in the ult tho
just a few other champs mashed into her,
Red Kayn and Aatrox, Percentage health damage on abilities with physical vamp passive
Runs like GP and shyvanna
Lee Sin, Energy back on auto attack after ability
Pantheon and Darius, Flat percentage armor pen passive. Pantheon more because its the same number on ult passive
Vi and K'sante obviously,
kalista and Sylas obviously,
Mini Fiora riposte with Riven dash shield
Camille damage on outer edge of ability but they just like outer edge = more damage in most champs tho.
Truly a smorgasbord of top lane champs mostly
21:30, Seems like its like Leona's E because she dashes to the furthest champ hit by her e too.
this champ is so competitive vibes, like i can see renek x ambessa matchup going on in worlds champ
Riot and their dashes, like a moth to a flame
Can you do Attack speed and Crit Abessa?
Items for example, kraken, essence river, experimental hexplate and cleaver for shredding armor, so you could actually assassin champs instantly like R then spam auto with dashing abilities.
Or just go with Crit build and spam 3 abilities and delete someone in a second.
And when charges on passive are full it gives 50 % attack speed and additional damage so yeah attack speed would be very good on her