Elo inflated baby champ users. Cant wait to watch garen in worlds. These champ definitely deserve to be in high elo and worlds. They help me to get to gold but in actuality im bronze....
@@robertharris3261 No they dont it would suck , a lot of champs are based on having dashes and they are loved and almost the only champs that tends to be skilled mecanically . Removing dashes will just make the game stupid , boring , and way less mecanically outplayable . Some champs are bad designs , some are good designs , a champ with no dash can be bad designed , and a champ with a lot of dash can be well designed , yasuo litteraly has infinite dashes and very few people think he is " bad designed " . If you think she is bad designed , use actual arguments , its stupid to basically say " dashes = bad design "
@Barook mobility needs limits, or those without mobility need to be excessively strong to stand a chance. Yasuo's dash has a cooldown per champ/minion and he can't free cast it. He is STILL considered overly mobile. Ambessa can dash everywhere for practically free with her only limit being walls.
@@zaclittlejohn2701 Yes they needs limits , and some champs are directly countered by mobility like Sion for example , doesnt mean mobility is always a bad design , or needs to have one dash max in their kit like is proposing the comment i was answering , And Ambessa limits are the fact that she cant dash overwall and that she has to dash forward only . Those are pretty fair weakness to her mobility I would say , Any stat check champion or any hard cc always hard counter those kind of champs . Which is fine , maybe she is broken , maybe she is not , we'll see but I think its stupid to think that more than 2 dashes is instantly unbalanced or bad design
Dashes are what people tend to lean into. So riot supplies for the demand. Most if the people crying about mobility creep, ironically, also love the same champs that have it. They only hate facing it, which is....questionable, imo
@@hellfrozenphoenix13 don't know the statistics on that but I'm more of a juggernaut enjoyer, movement speed while running towards enemy champions is enough for me
Ambessa was perfectly designed for Wild Rift. After Kalista released in WR her passive is very comfortable to trigger in joysticks making her very popular and easy to master.
What I really fear about Ambessa is her advantage state and neutral. Sure she doesn't have 200 years worth of stuff jammed into her kit but I fear the play patern she will bring is a problem. She gives out master yi vibes when it comes to advantage state, once she has the upper hand you are pretty much dead, there is no escaping and seeing how much she can regen energy and stay on target I really fear the fact that 1 mistake might be all it takes for you to get 0 to death. That alone wouldn't be a problem but when you see that she has both a sustainable way to dash in and out and pretty generous area coverage while getting a shield it really feels like she has a neutral game, and a good one at that... What makes hyper mobiles champs like Kalista, lucian or kai'sa balanced, or rather, not overbearing, is the fact that they are glass cannons, with very limited sustain/bulk and lockdown. Ambessa is a bruiser! And that comes with lower damage sure but also much, much higher survivability without counting the ult that can just bypass the main goal of teamfights, aka getting to the backline to shut down the ennemy carry! Sure she'll be hard to play but look at k'sante. It's not an excuse.
This champ cant tower dive cause of her time to kill and only average shield. Treat her like darius, when the lane is long and the minions are just now starting to push from their tower, just back off and let it slow push into you. She cant force kills on you if you respect her run down potential.
@@BloodDrenched-y6i she can't force kills but if you can't trade with her it means you'll be a lot under tower. And giving up priority to her will make your jungler basically unable to threaten topside objectif cause if the toplaner has a turret the jungler sure doesn't. But I get what you mean.
@@dimitricandeiracistaro4543 well yes but I don't like that, cause it means her damage comes from execution. You know what that implies? The average player will make her winrate be stupidly low so she'll get buffed and then terrorise high elo... where have I seen this patern before? ... nah must be dreaming...
Ambessa: a champ with 3,5-4k HP 300 ad 50 ah a dash on every ability shyvanas walking Animation kalista passive aatrox q ksante w Zeds e yone ult combined with Darius e passive and nasus passive.
shes not as fundamentally broken. Just aatrox with more dashes, less cc, slightly different abilities, and a skillshot engage ult. K’sante is a “tank” with mobility, damage, as a TANK. It just doesn’t fit into the game. She does.
@@nimrodszocs2795 People trying to say she's broken are hilarious. No hard cc besides easily dodged single target ult, hardly any damage based on all the gameplay we've seen so far. She's gonna get run over by the likes of mordekaiser, darius, garen, and any other top that can just 'walk at' you lol. Thank god she has dashes cause if any of them press ghost she's gone.
@@nimrodszocs2795i'm so tired of the k'sante comparasions. She plays COMPLETELY different than him but people need to find a way to shit on new releases
Looks like her burst and damage is actually really low as a cost to her mobility. If that is actually how it turns out I think she is well designed, but I feel like she will just turn into every other mobile champion, if their dmg is low they will just get buffed until they have decent damage.
Her damage really isn't low. People are building bruiser on her when her kit and scalings say lethality. Lethality Ambessa can 100-0 a squishy in an instant.
@@riven4121and like every other lethality building bruiser, will get 1 shot in return. And doesnt have nearly the same healing as lethality aatrox, nor the ability to hop walls like riven
@@ADoomain and? Wouldn’t be surprised if we see her played in jungle, with that aoe she’d have great clear times, and that R is insanely fast, you can’t dodge what you don’t expect, ganking would be insane
@@pyromeerkat4641 Didn't they also say that they initially wanted Ambessa to be the top laner, but after looking at her kit, they decided it fit way better in the mid lane?
@@thecherrypi9718 Champ is dead before his Q can land what meatshield. And how is irelia, fiora, Ambessa, Riven ect. perma dashing not cancer? You use your tiny dash once on Aatrox and you just get ran down and kited to death. Having 1 extra dash isn’t gonna break the champ .
Thank you for making a thought out run down of the champ. i get it she is being memed on, but the amount of people just saying she is broken from just reading abilities and not stopping to think about her weakness, which there are a lot of has been goofy. I always love the stance you take one champions when doing these kinds of videos, keep it up
So even though she didn’t feel strong to you, I guarantee what’s going to happen is her numbers will be buffed for release. Numbers aren’t what makes a champion’s kit 200 years imo. It’s having 4 dashes in your basic abilities, built in % armor pen and Omnivamp, no real struggle with resources during active combat, and an ult that punishes a standard approach to combat like having front liners stand in front of carries. Just because her numbers are low doesn’t mean she’s not going to be a pain in the butt to play against.
You haven't even had an opportunity to do so lol. Her having energy and fairly long cooldowns after her first rotation provides plenty of opportunity to punish her. She can't run away that easily due to the energy, since she'll run out.
Yeah, she will probably be strong, but not gamebreaking, on release. Then people will learn how to play against her, so her winrate will drop to mediocre and she will get buffed to compensate. Then pros will pick her up and she will get the Zeri treatment for the next 3 years cause her kit is too overloaded.
dashing a lot doesn't make a champ over tuned, its whether or not you can fight them. Do they have weaknesses? This champ is weak to being statchecked, is vunerable to being engaged on and has a playstyle similar to riven where she has to snowball or be useless.
in fairness Kalista is entirely why some people are worried. Kalista's had to be nerfed into oblivion because of pro players basically abusing the champion until riot was forced to make them nonviable.
Kalista would be average at most, 10 years of game evolution transformed the feared "ADC with a lot of dashes" into just another ADC, she would still be inferior to Kaisa and friends and only picked in situations where the bot needs a strong early
I went through your channel to watch another video again since i didn't finish eating, but all i saw is red lines under every single thumbnail, so yeah keep it up man i love your content !
I think the noticeable lack of damage is a decent trade off. For almost every thing else, except maybe make the Armor Pen scale so at 6 it's just kinda decent but if the game is long enough for her hit 16 then make it actually threatening. The scalings on her abilities are 'okay' at best so she'll likely be building health and AD, with minimal Armor and MR
The howling abyss healing nerf is for ally healing effects Self healing I believe is unaffected, otherwise characters like mundo and aatrox would feel significantly too weak.
@@bayanzabihiyan7465 yes, self healing isn't nerfed, but lifesteal and omnivamp is. And ambessa has her healing scaling of lifesteal and it isn't that big so she's either healing from lifesteal on auto attack nor she heals from R passive BC it is meant for teamfights more than 1v1
The comments are special on this one. Oh i like watching champs like garen and udyr in high elo and worlds. They really helped me to get to gold, but actually i belong in bronze (definitely not inflated).
I feel like she'll be one of those champions who is OP when her numbers (base stats/damage/CDs/etc.) are good, and will never get played when her numbers aren't good.
Infinite dashes, omnivamp and armor pen just for existing. Meanwhile Briar has the ability to self taunt and int, Blitzcrank slows himself down and Nasus has a passive with less than 10 words.
Excellent design gameplay-wise, insane skill floor and ceiling, seems fun to play Absurd design balance / competitive-wise, not a 200 year champ, but a 300 year one. In a solo game I'd love this. In LoL well I'm already afraid
Hot take, Ambessa is good design. Yeah, her lane phase is going to be rough, but she has clear weaknesses and clear strengths. She doesn't want to poke. She wants to fight. I can see her as a jungler, with tons of mobility to move through the jungle, aoe attacks to clear, but needs 6 to follow up on lane cc for ganks
She seems like she has insance potential, so will hold back any judgement for about a month on her. But I am happy that she was added. Her, Silco (though he's dead, would love to have him in game) and Sevika were the characters I wanted in the game.
She could be adequately designed or 400 years champion for all i care, am just looking forward to supporting her on ARAM or taking her down or die trying. Preferably with a large door.
well made video. I still worry with the healing once people get good at her. the big issue is healing in general has been kinda broken for years. Riot always trying to balance. look at atroxx and goredrinking now with sunder sky. etc. We all know about this at high level play and lower level too. :) thanks for video!
it was most likely just gonna be called stamina otherwise in this case which would be a random other name for energy ( so its good for clarity atleast)
If you think of it as something exclusive to Ionia, it's sad, but Noxus as a region having a champion with energy is acceptable and necessary for the lore.
This champ looks really fun to play/play against imo, it’s been a while since a true toplaner has been added to the champ pool, and people are complaining about her passive but it’s honestly not even that game breaking, unlike smolders passive that punishes the players for just playing the game. Her having energy shouldn’t even be a concern because it’s only the early game that it will be the effective. But most of them time u stop having mana issues after ur first base, maybe second. Not only that but it’s about time toplaners have a fighting chance against the actual 200 years champs in this game and not lose because bot lane or jungle can’t play their roles. They have done created a handful of Overtuned champions in this game that defeat the purpose of roles. All they can do now to balance it is to release another handful of overtuned champs to balance it all out. In time this champ will be favorited by many I will bet money on it.
Definitely more fair than Yone. At least she doesn’t get a shield for half her health on one swing, knock ups, an ult that engages and escapes, and like 25% move speed so you can’t run.
Vars did not miss... A lot of people are overreacting cus of dashes and calling her Ksante 2.0 even though her kit has practically nothing similar to him
The reason Kalista is difficult is because she's a squishy adc with no self peel and positioning is critical. Also having to juggle between dashing, attack moving and clicking the enemy since the dashing is tied to her autos. A bruiser having a dashing passive after an ability is not really difficult to play.
Spoke like a true bronze, it's trivial to spam auto -> move, don't even have to move your mouse. Biggest difficulty of kalista is she has only 2 abilities in soloQ
i dont see the issue with that sentence. Theres champion that still get value out of their ult even if it hits no one i.e Yone can use his ultimate to gap close or escape.
Forgive me if im wrong but we still dont know a lot about ambessa, so it's entirely possible. She has a very unique way of fighting, and the unprecedented green coloring on her outfit is definitely implying there's more to her i think.
As much as I love Ambessa and do think she is a great choice of arcane character for the game, I honestly would have preferred Sevika, we see a lot more from her at least so far and her fighting style and chemtech arm would have been really cool to play around with in game. But I guess we’ll probably see a lot more Ambessa in season 2 and probably less Sekiva, so the choice probably makes more sense after we get to see her fight in the show, but I really think adding Sevika was a missed opportunity
It's really weird that a lot of people compared her with K'sante, when my first thought was also that she looked more like an evolved, more modern Riven, so seeing the combination of her with Sylas seems really fitting. I too, feel a bit weird about the healing, although the base amount is not hat high, what I feel interesting and very dangerous if not balanced correctly, is the fact that the omnivamp scales out of Lifesteal. I guess is to incentivize players to build Ravenous, maybe Bloodthirster, hell, maybe even BoRK. Although I also advocate that the healing may be a bit of an extra on her kit and she should be fine if they removed or reworked it, The passive itself sounds more fitting for a rune or item, I'm not sure about how it could be implement to not break the game, but having a way to give AD caster bruisers a way to build lifesteal and let them turn it into omnivamp sounds really cool, specially now that there are basically no Omnivamp items (at least not ones that just give you the stat out of the blue, without needing it to be enabled by certain conditions).
To be a nerd and crunch some numbers I’ve calculated out the damage of her Q if you’re fighting a full build Ornn (5.4k HP, 555 Armor, and 267 MR for reference with Jak’Sho stacked). The build I’ve used for Ambessa is Trinity, Cleaver, Shojin, Sundered Sky, DD, and whatever boots you need for the sake of this example I used Steel Caps. You end up with 335 AD, 1.14 AS, 193 Armor, 67 MR, 60 AH (85 on basic abilities), and 380 MS. You end up with with a total damage ratio of 602 + 27.4% max health physical damage across both of her Q charges. Once you fully stack BC you knock the armor on Ornn down to ~390 so you’ve successfully reduced his 85% physical damage negation to 80%. Multiply that 390 Armor by the 30% pen of her passive and you end up with 273 Armor (73% physical damage reduction). With that we can finally calculate her best case scenario total ratio on Q assuming you and Ornn both full build decide to duke it out. Ambessa ends up with a total Q ratio of 138 + 6.3% max health physical damage. So tanky bois it’ll take her a while, other bruises with ~50% physical damage negation it’s gonna hurt but probably not completely nuke you, and ADCs/ Mages as usual it’s gonna hurt like a lot. Also for those of you that need skill shots to fight back like Ornn ult in this example good luck.
Honestly I agree with you Vars. her kit did look ridiculous at first glance but after playing quite a bit of her on pbe, I agree she doesn't seem too crazy. She feels like Riven with extra steps. I feel like there are far crazier champs who can do a lot more, but I guess time will tell. Great video.
Truth be told I was super nervous too about her. But then I saw gameplay and yea she’s will stay on top of you but at least she can’t 100-0 you in a blink of an eye.
I think she is meant to kite melees with her dashes long aa and her abilities with decent range, while all-ining range champs with her dashes and her bullseye ult
In the time I've played her on PBE, she seems rather fair for a champ with that much movement? Just as you said, she doesn't have any hard CC outside of ult and no insane burst like a Riven or Camille does. Also her ult one of the most satisfying to use in the game, blinking behind some unsuspecting mage or ADC and fucking their shit up is so cool.
At the rate we are going with dashes, 2025 may give us a new champion who has two dashes on every ability -- and it will be called fine by RIOT because it is less absurd than Ambessa, since that is only 6-7 dashes per ability rotation and she gets more than that.
DEI renekton. All jokes aside, it is a cool concept. And another cool concept. And another. Its 3 champions. It's vi, kalista, and renekton, just kit bashed into one entity.
I just wish they did a bit more with her weapon type. Also considering how she came across in Arcane, very grounded, strong and firm, making her a dashing champ makes no sense to me. I wish they did something more unique instead of "another dash" champ. Also I think a better character to have added to the game would've been Silco. I'm sensing a bit of Riot buy-out in this video.
So guys, do you think she will be a Zeri or a yuumi? +Broken on release, weak after half a year of instant reworks and buff/nerfs (Meta first- Weak later) +Weak on launch because players don't know how to play, later complete domination of the meta after they learn (Weak earlier- Meta later)
As an ADC main this champ looks like absolute hell. Basically unlimited dashes means you can't ever get close. Even with Champs like Jax, sylas, etc you usually can just stay away until they use their mobility. I think it's probably like playing against bruiser Katarina where she can always jump on top of you and you can never kill her. At least she doesn't have cc or cc immunity... Although I'm half expecting she can buffer with her jumps
@@templeofdelusion sure buddy, keep telling yourself that. Let's say her dash range is 200 per dash (that's about half of Renektons dash range and a low estimate). The average ADC has between 500-600 range. So 3 dashes guarantee to close that gap and she has 3 unconditional dashes + a fourth if she hits her q. Even if you just run away and dodge every skill shot, the only way you can escape is Ambessa making a mistake. It's like kiting a lvl 16 Kassadin
@@Eisommolosif you're properly kiting her the range should be bigger than 500-600. And she can't use her abilities to close the gap on you because she has 200 energy like every other champ and they cost 70 each time she uses it. So by the time she used every ability with her passive she has zero energy left to attack you and have to use passive stacks to recover energy and she might as well be dead if you just auto and kite her. All that without even considering support peel, mage CC, the damage she lost closing the gap with all her spells and all that jazz.
@@Eisommolos "She has 3 unconditional dashes" LMAO, her condition is that ADC she's trying to jump onto will kite ker skills and if she doesn't land them she will fucking die because that's where her damage is. How fucking bronze are you to not understand that it's a skill based matchup? Why would her dashes even matter? How is it any different from a ghosted darius charging at you? Your autoattacks can't be dashed away from. Adc is literally the least impacted role by this champion, there exist champions who are useless if they can't land any of their abilities, rightclicker main complaining about goofy aah champion taking 2 steps instead of one after she casts a spell lmao.
Me: Okay, she seems tricky to deal with, but overall fair, I suppose. Definitely less 200 years than some of the other abominations. Vars: Conversely, I can already anticipate how much ADC mains will *despise* her. Me, a Jinx main: Uh oh.
Im so happy you mentioned her lack off cc and burstcuz the ammount of people whining abt her mobility when renekton can dash across half the lane and oneshot you with w ult q while you are cc’d. There is a copious ammount of counter-play especially for high mobility champs.
I’m actually laughing at “halfway across the lane” when in reality renekton dashes like 1/8th of the lane and it’s conditional, as well as being a long ass cooldown. Cope harder 😂
@@supersquare04 it is way closer to half the lane than 1/8th of the lane , you never saw a renekton at world or what ? Bro can be around middle bush of toplane and very quicky dash to turret range with double e , " and its conditional " oh yes , the condition being dashing through anything that is alive , not like minions are not a common things we find in lanes , im not even agreeing totally with the first comment but your answer being arrogant , and YOU dare saying " cope harder " while you said 1/8th of the lane and its conditional " just before is pure comedy . look at yourself before speaking bud .
You say she seems underwhelming now but wait til the players that have the mechanical skill to take full advantage of every element of her kit start playing her and I guarantee you she will be nerfed in the end.
I dont care what anyone says. She looks fun as hell and thats why we play video games, to have fun! Glad this video is finally someone actually being logical about the character though. Everyone pre-emptively raging is so cringe.
Poppy gonna go hard, I also think that the fact that they designed her so it’s difficult for her to escape makes it fine. Yone doesn’t make me mad when he all ins me, he makes me mad when he attacks me from a totally safe distance and then runs away when he loses trade She can’t do that it seems to me
Yone is Leblanc, but with AD damage instead of AP. The champ you're looking at is very similar to many top-lane champs such as Riven, Ksante, Darius etc. It's a crossover between those.
After playing Ambessa I’m gonna be real here, she’s very balanced… IF SHE GOES BRUISER. If she goes lethality assassin this character is not fair in the slightest. But somehow building bruiser the way most Skirmishers should build makes her very very fair. But yeah, lethality assassin needs a tune up…
I cringed when I first saw her, but after I saw some gameplay (it was on summoners rift) she in fact doesn't seem overloaded. She will just be annoying to face. Nobody likes this kind of champs and yet riot can't help but add more of them despite all the backlash. I'm starting to think they might despise their playerbase and are doing this on purpose.
Or they know that for as much as people loeath Yasuo or Yone they are still much more played thatn Skarner or Yorick. The backlash is very petulant because I hate Yone and while i've like 2 skins on him i haven't played a single game with him since release... But some people main the man and complain about him. Riot knows this, they release the power fantasy champ so people buy her skins and use it a lot. Simple as that.
Both the op and the reply are the dichotomy of league of legends players. The skeptic who doubts and questions, and the blind sycophant consumer who 'buys two skins on a character and never plays them'.
@@lucamckenn5932 dude, In the 8 years I've played lol I've never spend a single dollar on the game. You know skins can be adquired trough chests and fusions, right? So maybe don't go around pretending to know me and my opinions.
Congratulations to the editors; the heroes that we don't deserve
I freed him… for now.
Vars normally: 🗿
Vars behind the scenes: 😈
@@lucifugerofocale5847those who know 🥶🥶🥶
Not only did he fail to delete Yone, he managed to spawn another 200-years-ling
Greatest failure in league history smh
They got em and gave vars a dash.
he's a traitor
Elo inflated baby champ users. Cant wait to watch garen in worlds. These champ definitely deserve to be in high elo and worlds. They help me to get to gold but in actuality im bronze....
I already foresee a cascade of nerf patches that still wouldn't make this champ fair
Vars, you were meant to visit riot hq to delete yone not bring us a video about yone and ksante daughter
It's more of a ksante kalista dauther, but I know what you mean.
@@annaadotd6405 K'Sante and Kalista daughter with Yone as the Godfather.
@@annaadotd6405 The point is he left us in darkness... Wait wrong person.
Wouldn't it be K'sante Grandma?
I was thinking more Riven and Ksante daughter. You know how lonely and boring it gets in the top lane at times. 😂
He truly is the ultimate lunch break youtuber i can't wait to watch
Literally watching this on my lunch break right now
@@wlnlax14 same bro posted it the same minute i went on break
I sat down for my lunch and got the notification for this vid
@@Miss_Phoenix_56 he knows his audience
I just finished my lunch and saw your comment 😂
Riot : how many dashes should this new champion have?
Also Riot : all of them
right i feel that is bad design riot needs to make a hard rule that champs can have at most 2 dashes 1 in kit and flash
@@robertharris3261 No they dont it would suck , a lot of champs are based on having dashes and they are loved and almost the only champs that tends to be skilled mecanically . Removing dashes will just make the game stupid , boring , and way less mecanically outplayable . Some champs are bad designs , some are good designs , a champ with no dash can be bad designed , and a champ with a lot of dash can be well designed , yasuo litteraly has infinite dashes and very few people think he is " bad designed " . If you think she is bad designed , use actual arguments , its stupid to basically say " dashes = bad design "
@Barook mobility needs limits, or those without mobility need to be excessively strong to stand a chance. Yasuo's dash has a cooldown per champ/minion and he can't free cast it. He is STILL considered overly mobile. Ambessa can dash everywhere for practically free with her only limit being walls.
@Barook This is the mentality of a person who relies heavily on dashes to play the game.
@@zaclittlejohn2701 Yes they needs limits , and some champs are directly countered by mobility like Sion for example , doesnt mean mobility is always a bad design , or needs to have one dash max in their kit like is proposing the comment i was answering , And Ambessa limits are the fact that she cant dash overwall and that she has to dash forward only . Those are pretty fair weakness to her mobility I would say , Any stat check champion or any hard cc always hard counter those kind of champs . Which is fine , maybe she is broken , maybe she is not , we'll see but I think its stupid to think that more than 2 dashes is instantly unbalanced or bad design
0:11 Wait, so it really was Rito Games?!
The back of the sign yes
It always has been.
Damn vars, you handsome
did i miss the face reveal or smth why no one going crazy bout this
@@ltdaog4528we’ve known what his face looked like for a while now.
Man, Riot loves dashes.
Because they're fun
fun to play so they add more
And so do players as much you want to think otherwise.
Dashes are what people tend to lean into. So riot supplies for the demand.
Most if the people crying about mobility creep, ironically, also love the same champs that have it. They only hate facing it, which is....questionable, imo
@@hellfrozenphoenix13 don't know the statistics on that but I'm more of a juggernaut enjoyer, movement speed while running towards enemy champions is enough for me
Ambessa was perfectly designed for Wild Rift.
After Kalista released in WR her passive is very comfortable to trigger in joysticks making her very popular and easy to master.
Vars is on house arrest while his treason is being investigated: he was sent with a mission and returned without fulfilling it
Riot brainwashed my boy Vars 💀
What I really fear about Ambessa is her advantage state and neutral. Sure she doesn't have 200 years worth of stuff jammed into her kit but I fear the play patern she will bring is a problem.
She gives out master yi vibes when it comes to advantage state, once she has the upper hand you are pretty much dead, there is no escaping and seeing how much she can regen energy and stay on target I really fear the fact that 1 mistake might be all it takes for you to get 0 to death.
That alone wouldn't be a problem but when you see that she has both a sustainable way to dash in and out and pretty generous area coverage while getting a shield it really feels like she has a neutral game, and a good one at that...
What makes hyper mobiles champs like Kalista, lucian or kai'sa balanced, or rather, not overbearing, is the fact that they are glass cannons, with very limited sustain/bulk and lockdown. Ambessa is a bruiser! And that comes with lower damage sure but also much, much higher survivability without counting the ult that can just bypass the main goal of teamfights, aka getting to the backline to shut down the ennemy carry!
Sure she'll be hard to play but look at k'sante. It's not an excuse.
This champ cant tower dive cause of her time to kill and only average shield. Treat her like darius, when the lane is long and the minions are just now starting to push from their tower, just back off and let it slow push into you. She cant force kills on you if you respect her run down potential.
Vars said that, even tho thanks to her 1 million dashes her advantage state is crazy, she doesnt do that much damage
@@dimitricandeiracistaro4543 She does even less damage if she tries to dash on you from half a screen away.
@@BloodDrenched-y6i she can't force kills but if you can't trade with her it means you'll be a lot under tower. And giving up priority to her will make your jungler basically unable to threaten topside objectif cause if the toplaner has a turret the jungler sure doesn't.
But I get what you mean.
@@dimitricandeiracistaro4543 well yes but I don't like that, cause it means her damage comes from execution. You know what that implies? The average player will make her winrate be stupidly low so she'll get buffed and then terrorise high elo... where have I seen this patern before? ... nah must be dreaming...
Ambessa: a champ with 3,5-4k HP 300 ad 50 ah a dash on every ability shyvanas walking Animation kalista passive aatrox q ksante w Zeds e yone ult combined with Darius e passive and nasus passive.
can't wait for showmaker to rant about her after a year of the ksante incident
shes not as fundamentally broken. Just aatrox with more dashes, less cc, slightly different abilities, and a skillshot engage ult. K’sante is a “tank” with mobility, damage, as a TANK. It just doesn’t fit into the game. She does.
@@nimrodszocs2795 People trying to say she's broken are hilarious. No hard cc besides easily dodged single target ult, hardly any damage based on all the gameplay we've seen so far. She's gonna get run over by the likes of mordekaiser, darius, garen, and any other top that can just 'walk at' you lol. Thank god she has dashes cause if any of them press ghost she's gone.
@@nimrodszocs2795i'm so tired of the k'sante comparasions. She plays COMPLETELY different than him but people need to find a way to shit on new releases
@@vichoe4589 the only similarities they have are: toplaner, fighter playstyle, black
Looks like her burst and damage is actually really low as a cost to her mobility. If that is actually how it turns out I think she is well designed, but I feel like she will just turn into every other mobile champion, if their dmg is low they will just get buffed until they have decent damage.
Her damage really isn't low. People are building bruiser on her when her kit and scalings say lethality. Lethality Ambessa can 100-0 a squishy in an instant.
@@riven4121and like every other lethality building bruiser, will get 1 shot in return. And doesnt have nearly the same healing as lethality aatrox, nor the ability to hop walls like riven
@@ADoomain and? Wouldn’t be surprised if we see her played in jungle, with that aoe she’d have great clear times, and that R is insanely fast, you can’t dodge what you don’t expect, ganking would be insane
@@hunterkinsella5303 riot did say she is "top/jungle" so your right
@@pyromeerkat4641 Didn't they also say that they initially wanted Ambessa to be the top laner, but after looking at her kit, they decided it fit way better in the mid lane?
With the amount of times Yone keeps getting mentioned, my brain failed for a second and thought I was somehow on the Why Everyone Plays Yone again.
Riot removes aatrox double dash but gives ambessa infinite dashes makes sense. Gonna be fun never landing a Q vs this champ.
Tbh Aatrox double dash was cancer once the rework got it's footing and they stopped him from being the best meatshield in the game.
@@thecherrypi9718 so ambessa dashing 30 times per second is not gonna be cancer?
Aatrox would be pure cancer without any dashes
@ You can’t dodge skill shots nice to know.
@@thecherrypi9718 Champ is dead before his Q can land what meatshield. And how is irelia, fiora, Ambessa, Riven ect. perma dashing not cancer? You use your tiny dash once on Aatrox and you just get ran down and kited to death. Having 1 extra dash isn’t gonna break the champ .
"Yone is my favorite champion. Ambessa having a Yone ult is a good thing"
-Vars, RITO HQ, 2024
Honestly fr
Thank you for making a thought out run down of the champ. i get it she is being memed on, but the amount of people just saying she is broken from just reading abilities and not stopping to think about her weakness, which there are a lot of has been goofy. I always love the stance you take one champions when doing these kinds of videos, keep it up
They finally found a way to use rengar swim q hitbox
So even though she didn’t feel strong to you, I guarantee what’s going to happen is her numbers will be buffed for release. Numbers aren’t what makes a champion’s kit 200 years imo. It’s having 4 dashes in your basic abilities, built in % armor pen and Omnivamp, no real struggle with resources during active combat, and an ult that punishes a standard approach to combat like having front liners stand in front of carries.
Just because her numbers are low doesn’t mean she’s not going to be a pain in the butt to play against.
You haven't even had an opportunity to do so lol. Her having energy and fairly long cooldowns after her first rotation provides plenty of opportunity to punish her. She can't run away that easily due to the energy, since she'll run out.
Yeah, she will probably be strong, but not gamebreaking, on release. Then people will learn how to play against her, so her winrate will drop to mediocre and she will get buffed to compensate. Then pros will pick her up and she will get the Zeri treatment for the next 3 years cause her kit is too overloaded.
she has already had her numbers nerfed since the playtest XD
dashing a lot doesn't make a champ over tuned, its whether or not you can fight them. Do they have weaknesses? This champ is weak to being statchecked, is vunerable to being engaged on and has a playstyle similar to riven where she has to snowball or be useless.
@@cybercorn5966energy refunds on hit. Flicker blades gonna make this champ stupid
I wonder how much people would freak if Kalista released today
Or Ahri even. 3 dashes that reset on kill?! 😱
in fairness Kalista is entirely why some people are worried. Kalista's had to be nerfed into oblivion because of pro players basically abusing the champion until riot was forced to make them nonviable.
Kalista would be average at most, 10 years of game evolution transformed the feared "ADC with a lot of dashes" into just another ADC, she would still be inferior to Kaisa and friends and only picked in situations where the bot needs a strong early
@@areadbhair6365 so will be ambessa
@@templeofdelusion yep, I see her as the top katarina, the OTP will be disgusting, the rest will be mid at best
I love how the people just screaming "200 years" didn't even watch the video
im so glad i found this channel, your videos are really well done gj
i ran as soon as i saw the notification, been holding off from watchig other videos until i saw yours
I would've loved it if you just uploaded a 5 second video of just the word "No" for the memes
I went through your channel to watch another video again since i didn't finish eating, but all i saw is red lines under every single thumbnail, so yeah keep it up man i love your content !
Lets go Vars, I watched since your Maplestory videos and didn't know you blew up so much. Huge grats man, always loved your content!
I think the noticeable lack of damage is a decent trade off. For almost every thing else, except maybe make the Armor Pen scale so at 6 it's just kinda decent but if the game is long enough for her hit 16 then make it actually threatening. The scalings on her abilities are 'okay' at best so she'll likely be building health and AD, with minimal Armor and MR
But the armor pen does scale with levels. It's 10% per level on her ult. The champ is perfectly designed with many strengths and many weaknesses.
11:00 YOU FORGOT !!! lifesteal on howling abyss is nerfed by 50 or 75% !!! its near to not working
The howling abyss healing nerf is for ally healing effects
Self healing I believe is unaffected, otherwise characters like mundo and aatrox would feel significantly too weak.
the self healing it's not nerfed it's only ally healing
@@bayanzabihiyan7465 yes, self healing isn't nerfed, but lifesteal and omnivamp is. And ambessa has her healing scaling of lifesteal and it isn't that big so she's either healing from lifesteal on auto attack nor she heals from R passive BC it is meant for teamfights more than 1v1
@@killus_ its not nerfed lifesteal and omnivamp on champs its nerfed on minions.
The comments are special on this one. Oh i like watching champs like garen and udyr in high elo and worlds. They really helped me to get to gold, but actually i belong in bronze (definitely not inflated).
I feel like she'll be one of those champions who is OP when her numbers (base stats/damage/CDs/etc.) are good, and will never get played when her numbers aren't good.
Infinite dashes, omnivamp and armor pen just for existing.
Meanwhile Briar has the ability to self taunt and int, Blitzcrank slows himself down and Nasus has a passive with less than 10 words.
Excellent design gameplay-wise, insane skill floor and ceiling, seems fun to play
Absurd design balance / competitive-wise, not a 200 year champ, but a 300 year one.
In a solo game I'd love this. In LoL well I'm already afraid
I think the most concerning part of her kit, for me, is the name of her ult. Just for the implications it has on Arcane season 2.
Seeing you cameo in Nicky Bois video was nice
Hot take, Ambessa is good design. Yeah, her lane phase is going to be rough, but she has clear weaknesses and clear strengths. She doesn't want to poke. She wants to fight. I can see her as a jungler, with tons of mobility to move through the jungle, aoe attacks to clear, but needs 6 to follow up on lane cc for ganks
She seems like she has insance potential, so will hold back any judgement for about a month on her. But I am happy that she was added. Her, Silco (though he's dead, would love to have him in game) and Sevika were the characters I wanted in the game.
She could be adequately designed or 400 years champion for all i care, am just looking forward to supporting her on ARAM or taking her down or die trying. Preferably with a large door.
Ngl you look great man 👍
Great voice and face, daaaamn 😊
Great video, well done
well made video. I still worry with the healing once people get good at her. the big issue is healing in general has been kinda broken for years. Riot always trying to balance. look at atroxx and goredrinking now with sunder sky. etc. We all know about this at high level play and lower level too. :) thanks for video!
Im sad they break the narrative arround energy related to jonia/martial arts/ninjutsu. :/
Well, it was one of the few gameplay elements that had a good narrative behind it.
imagine if they call it noxian energy instead
@@hmhm2281 Lol, call it Noxian determination
it was most likely just gonna be called stamina otherwise in this case which would be a random other name for energy ( so its good for clarity atleast)
If you think of it as something exclusive to Ionia, it's sad, but Noxus as a region having a champion with energy is acceptable and necessary for the lore.
This champ looks really fun to play/play against imo, it’s been a while since a true toplaner has been added to the champ pool, and people are complaining about her passive but it’s honestly not even that game breaking, unlike smolders passive that punishes the players for just playing the game.
Her having energy shouldn’t even be a concern because it’s only the early game that it will be the effective. But most of them time u stop having mana issues after ur first base, maybe second.
Not only that but it’s about time toplaners have a fighting chance against the actual 200 years champs in this game and not lose because bot lane or jungle can’t play their roles.
They have done created a handful of Overtuned champions in this game that defeat the purpose of roles. All they can do now to balance it is to release another handful of overtuned champs to balance it all out. In time this champ will be favorited by many I will bet money on it.
Cant wait to play as Jinx from arcane vs Ambessa from league
call me crazy, but her design reminds me of briar.
combat dashes
all or nothing ult
healing
might just be noxus
It makes sense tbh. The place values power.
Definitely more fair than Yone. At least she doesn’t get a shield for half her health on one swing, knock ups, an ult that engages and escapes, and like 25% move speed so you can’t run.
Yone isn't similar at all. Yone is similar to Leblanc.. a snipe mage. Ambessa is more like riven.
I'm just picturing a hard read scenario where a tank flashes behind their squishy to redirect an Ambessa Ult
Vars did not miss... A lot of people are overreacting cus of dashes and calling her Ksante 2.0 even though her kit has practically nothing similar to him
The reason Kalista is difficult is because she's a squishy adc with no self peel and positioning is critical. Also having to juggle between dashing, attack moving and clicking the enemy since the dashing is tied to her autos.
A bruiser having a dashing passive after an ability is not really difficult to play.
Spoke like a true bronze, it's trivial to spam auto -> move, don't even have to move your mouse.
Biggest difficulty of kalista is she has only 2 abilities in soloQ
@@templeofdelusion You probably don't play adc. There are plenty of situations in which you don't use attack move. You must alternate. 🙄
@@sheogorath1374 I didn't mention attack move at all because that's for bronzes.
@@templeofdelusion 👀
@@templeofdelusion The amount of projection at display here would make a redditor blush LOOLL
3:35 not yet, I’m gonna call it now or I will delete my account, RITO will add her ability to dash over walls later on, maybe in a rework
I wouldn't bet on that. Plenty of champions have and have always had dashes that can't go over walls, I don't see why hers would warrant a change
Been waiting for this
"She has an ultimate that is completely useless if it misses."
What a sentence.
i dont see the issue with that sentence. Theres champion that still get value out of their ult even if it hits no one i.e Yone can use his ultimate to gap close or escape.
Can't wait for this champion. I have horrendous mechanics so most of my league success is built on macro play, I'm gonna be SO bad at her lol
I would prefer if there was a narative reaaon for her to be an energy user, like she took the fighting style of ionia and turned it into her own.
Forgive me if im wrong but we still dont know a lot about ambessa, so it's entirely possible. She has a very unique way of fighting, and the unprecedented green coloring on her outfit is definitely implying there's more to her i think.
You look like one of my SWE partners from uni. Bro carried me through that class.
26 dashes in 30 seconds.
Let that sink in.
Riot try not to make a champion with 504858 dashes challenge: impossible
Voltaic Cyclosword is gonna go crazy on this champ
As much as I love Ambessa and do think she is a great choice of arcane character for the game, I honestly would have preferred Sevika, we see a lot more from her at least so far and her fighting style and chemtech arm would have been really cool to play around with in game. But I guess we’ll probably see a lot more Ambessa in season 2 and probably less Sekiva, so the choice probably makes more sense after we get to see her fight in the show, but I really think adding Sevika was a missed opportunity
I love how well she sticks to enemies. Can’t wait to play her bot
Invis, 3 dashes, an execute. Amazing how in 36 seconds you already know how to play vs and as this champion.
It'll be fine
It's really weird that a lot of people compared her with K'sante, when my first thought was also that she looked more like an evolved, more modern Riven, so seeing the combination of her with Sylas seems really fitting.
I too, feel a bit weird about the healing, although the base amount is not hat high, what I feel interesting and very dangerous if not balanced correctly, is the fact that the omnivamp scales out of Lifesteal. I guess is to incentivize players to build Ravenous, maybe Bloodthirster, hell, maybe even BoRK.
Although I also advocate that the healing may be a bit of an extra on her kit and she should be fine if they removed or reworked it, The passive itself sounds more fitting for a rune or item, I'm not sure about how it could be implement to not break the game, but having a way to give AD caster bruisers a way to build lifesteal and let them turn it into omnivamp sounds really cool, specially now that there are basically no Omnivamp items (at least not ones that just give you the stat out of the blue, without needing it to be enabled by certain conditions).
Same. Weird how the name Riven is so rarely mentioned both by content creators and by fans/comment sections when comparing Ambessa
She's really not as bad as people (un)hype her out to be. She lacks a lot of the utility that makes 200 year champions 200 years in the first place
To be a nerd and crunch some numbers I’ve calculated out the damage of her Q if you’re fighting a full build Ornn (5.4k HP, 555 Armor, and 267 MR for reference with Jak’Sho stacked).
The build I’ve used for Ambessa is Trinity, Cleaver, Shojin, Sundered Sky, DD, and whatever boots you need for the sake of this example I used Steel Caps. You end up with 335 AD, 1.14 AS, 193 Armor, 67 MR, 60 AH (85 on basic abilities), and 380 MS.
You end up with with a total damage ratio of 602 + 27.4% max health physical damage across both of her Q charges. Once you fully stack BC you knock the armor on Ornn down to ~390 so you’ve successfully reduced his 85% physical damage negation to 80%. Multiply that 390 Armor by the 30% pen of her passive and you end up with 273 Armor (73% physical damage reduction).
With that we can finally calculate her best case scenario total ratio on Q assuming you and Ornn both full build decide to duke it out. Ambessa ends up with a total Q ratio of 138 + 6.3% max health physical damage.
So tanky bois it’ll take her a while, other bruises with ~50% physical damage negation it’s gonna hurt but probably not completely nuke you, and ADCs/ Mages as usual it’s gonna hurt like a lot. Also for those of you that need skill shots to fight back like Ornn ult in this example good luck.
Honestly I agree with you Vars. her kit did look ridiculous at first glance but after playing quite a bit of her on pbe, I agree she doesn't seem too crazy. She feels like Riven with extra steps. I feel like there are far crazier champs who can do a lot more, but I guess time will tell. Great video.
0:30 He's as much of a cutie pie as ge sounds 😌
I swear I would enjoy more your videos with a facecam, I could watch that face all day long xd
Truth be told I was super nervous too about her.
But then I saw gameplay and yea she’s will stay on top of you but at least she can’t 100-0 you in a blink of an eye.
I think she is meant to kite melees with her dashes long aa and her abilities with decent range, while all-ining range champs with her dashes and her bullseye ult
In the time I've played her on PBE, she seems rather fair for a champ with that much movement? Just as you said, she doesn't have any hard CC outside of ult and no insane burst like a Riven or Camille does. Also her ult one of the most satisfying to use in the game, blinking behind some unsuspecting mage or ADC and fucking their shit up is so cool.
You had ONE JOB!!
Riot should really start making more Energy Based Champions.
At the rate we are going with dashes, 2025 may give us a new champion who has two dashes on every ability -- and it will be called fine by RIOT because it is less absurd than Ambessa, since that is only 6-7 dashes per ability rotation and she gets more than that.
DEI renekton. All jokes aside, it is a cool concept. And another cool concept. And another. Its 3 champions. It's vi, kalista, and renekton, just kit bashed into one entity.
I just wish they did a bit more with her weapon type. Also considering how she came across in Arcane, very grounded, strong and firm, making her a dashing champ makes no sense to me. I wish they did something more unique instead of "another dash" champ. Also I think a better character to have added to the game would've been Silco. I'm sensing a bit of Riot buy-out in this video.
2 seconds away from greatness
So guys, do you think she will be a Zeri or a yuumi?
+Broken on release, weak after half a year of instant reworks and buff/nerfs (Meta first- Weak later)
+Weak on launch because players don't know how to play, later complete domination of the meta after they learn (Weak earlier- Meta later)
I expect her pop off with sundersky/eclipse/blackcleaver mark my words
I simply love her gameplay
As an ADC main this champ looks like absolute hell. Basically unlimited dashes means you can't ever get close. Even with Champs like Jax, sylas, etc you usually can just stay away until they use their mobility.
I think it's probably like playing against bruiser Katarina where she can always jump on top of you and you can never kill her.
At least she doesn't have cc or cc immunity... Although I'm half expecting she can buffer with her jumps
Her dashes are short and she has no CC, easy to kite for any ADC who isn't as hardstuck as you.
@@templeofdelusion sure buddy, keep telling yourself that.
Let's say her dash range is 200 per dash (that's about half of Renektons dash range and a low estimate). The average ADC has between 500-600 range. So 3 dashes guarantee to close that gap and she has 3 unconditional dashes + a fourth if she hits her q.
Even if you just run away and dodge every skill shot, the only way you can escape is Ambessa making a mistake. It's like kiting a lvl 16 Kassadin
@@Eisommolosif you're properly kiting her the range should be bigger than 500-600. And she can't use her abilities to close the gap on you because she has 200 energy like every other champ and they cost 70 each time she uses it.
So by the time she used every ability with her passive she has zero energy left to attack you and have to use passive stacks to recover energy and she might as well be dead if you just auto and kite her.
All that without even considering support peel, mage CC, the damage she lost closing the gap with all her spells and all that jazz.
Yeah.. but every bruiser destroys every ADC. So that's not new in the slightest.
@@Eisommolos "She has 3 unconditional dashes"
LMAO, her condition is that ADC she's trying to jump onto will kite ker skills and if she doesn't land them she will fucking die because that's where her damage is. How fucking bronze are you to not understand that it's a skill based matchup?
Why would her dashes even matter? How is it any different from a ghosted darius charging at you? Your autoattacks can't be dashed away from.
Adc is literally the least impacted role by this champion, there exist champions who are useless if they can't land any of their abilities, rightclicker main complaining about goofy aah champion taking 2 steps instead of one after she casts a spell lmao.
If the clip in the beggining you played k'sante instead of her, he literally gets a pentakill for sure.
Me: Okay, she seems tricky to deal with, but overall fair, I suppose. Definitely less 200 years than some of the other abominations.
Vars: Conversely, I can already anticipate how much ADC mains will *despise* her.
Me, a Jinx main: Uh oh.
But all toplaners do right? So.. that's to be expected from any bruiser.
omg i dont remember Vars being this cuteeeeee
"...Speak to the designer [...] and hear his thought process. "
To telos arheezee
To telos arheezee
To telos arheezee
Lesgoooo I couldn't wait for Ambessa
Im so happy you mentioned her lack off cc and burstcuz the ammount of people whining abt her mobility when renekton can dash across half the lane and oneshot you with w ult q while you are cc’d. There is a copious ammount of counter-play especially for high mobility champs.
I’m actually laughing at “halfway across the lane” when in reality renekton dashes like 1/8th of the lane and it’s conditional, as well as being a long ass cooldown. Cope harder 😂
@@supersquare04 I'm pretty sure his dash cooldown is lower than your respawn timer.
@@supersquare04 it is way closer to half the lane than 1/8th of the lane , you never saw a renekton at world or what ? Bro can be around middle bush of toplane and very quicky dash to turret range with double e , " and its conditional " oh yes , the condition being dashing through anything that is alive , not like minions are not a common things we find in lanes , im not even agreeing totally with the first comment but your answer being arrogant , and YOU dare saying " cope harder " while you said 1/8th of the lane and its conditional " just before is pure comedy . look at yourself before speaking bud .
@@Barook it ain’t nowhere close to half the lane lmfao. Half the top laners in the game have more mobility than renekton, and it isn’t conditional
Oneshot renek? Only if he builds full ADC items in silver.
You say she seems underwhelming now but wait til the players that have the mechanical skill to take full advantage of every element of her kit start playing her and I guarantee you she will be nerfed in the end.
I dont care what anyone says. She looks fun as hell and thats why we play video games, to have fun!
Glad this video is finally someone actually being logical about the character though. Everyone pre-emptively raging is so cringe.
Her ult passive is *very* different on wr, it's basically just the second part of deaths dance
I ain't gotta be the only one not expecting the voice behind Vars is a handsome asian man
Meanwhile other champions.,Teemos W: moves faster
Poppy gonna go hard, I also think that the fact that they designed her so it’s difficult for her to escape makes it fine.
Yone doesn’t make me mad when he all ins me, he makes me mad when he attacks me from a totally safe distance and then runs away when he loses trade
She can’t do that it seems to me
Yone is Leblanc, but with AD damage instead of AP. The champ you're looking at is very similar to many top-lane champs such as Riven, Ksante, Darius etc. It's a crossover between those.
8:51 the mistakes of the past must not be repeated
On your notes for which Arcane character to see: I’ve wanted Sevika from the start lol
After playing Ambessa I’m gonna be real here, she’s very balanced… IF SHE GOES BRUISER. If she goes lethality assassin this character is not fair in the slightest. But somehow building bruiser the way most Skirmishers should build makes her very very fair.
But yeah, lethality assassin needs a tune up…
Yeah Vars went to riot hq and suddenly obviously 200 years champ with 5 dashes is not op 🤡
Mr. Editor can finally eat!
I cringed when I first saw her, but after I saw some gameplay (it was on summoners rift) she in fact doesn't seem overloaded. She will just be annoying to face.
Nobody likes this kind of champs and yet riot can't help but add more of them despite all the backlash. I'm starting to think they might despise their playerbase and are doing this on purpose.
Or they know that for as much as people loeath Yasuo or Yone they are still much more played thatn Skarner or Yorick. The backlash is very petulant because I hate Yone and while i've like 2 skins on him i haven't played a single game with him since release... But some people main the man and complain about him. Riot knows this, they release the power fantasy champ so people buy her skins and use it a lot. Simple as that.
Both the op and the reply are the dichotomy of league of legends players. The skeptic who doubts and questions, and the blind sycophant consumer who 'buys two skins on a character and never plays them'.
@@lucamckenn5932 dude, In the 8 years I've played lol I've never spend a single dollar on the game. You know skins can be adquired trough chests and fusions, right? So maybe don't go around pretending to know me and my opinions.
cant wait to see the comments of ppl saying shes not overloaded when they get their sht pushed in by her
god I'd kill to have these dashes and omni vamp on aatrox.