Find out everything you need to know about the newest LoL champion, Ambessa Medarda, ranging from her passive to her abilities.
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Ambessa Medarda Abilities Revealed
After long anticipation, Ambessa Medarda will finally hit Summoner’s Rift. The character from Arcane will hit the live servers on November 6 with the release of Patch 14.22, and she is available to play on the PBE servers.
Initially designed back in 2022, Ambessa Medarda will also be released on other Riot Games titles, including Wild Rift, Legends of Runeterra, and Teamfight Tactics. Her release will coincide with the arrival of Arcane Season 2, which will be on Netflix on November 9, one week after the Grand Final of Worlds 2024 at the 02 Arena in London.
Below is the rundown and the current numbers, as revealed by game designer Spideraxe. Given that the champion is yet to be released, her numbers are probably subject to changes.
Ambessa’s base stats
- Base AD: 63
- AD growth: 3
- Base armor: 35
- Armor growth: 4.9
- Base MR: 32
- MR growth 2.05
- Base move speed: 335
- Attack range: 125
- Base attack speed: 0.625
- Attack speed ratio: 0.625
- Attack speed growth: 2.5%
- Acquisition range: 600
Abilities Rundown
Passive – Drakehound’s Step
- When Ambessa is casting an ability, issuing a move or attack order will cause her to dash in that direction after the Ability finishes. Each cast initiation grants her a charge for 4 seconds (max 3). While Ambessa has a charge, she gains 100 attack range and 50% attack speed. Attacks consume a charge to deal (5 – 15 based on level) + 25% bonus AD physical damage and restore (40 – 70 based on level) energy.
- Commands issued during the cast time or duration of Abilities or Attacks are stored. Once the Ability or Attack finishes, the most recently stored command is executed. The windup of charged Attacks cannot be canceled.
Q – Cunning Sweep / Sundering Slam
- Cunning Sweep: Ambessa sweeps her blades forward, dealing max Health physical damage to enemies at the edge of the strike. All other enemies take 50% damage. Striking an enemy readies a Sundering Slam
- Sundering Slam: Ambessa slams her blades down, dealing max Health physical damage against the first enemy hit. All other enemies take 50% damage.
- Cooldown: 10/9.5/9/8.5/8 seconds
- Cost: 70 energy
- Cunning Sweep | damage: (40/60/80/100/120 + 60% bonus AD) + (2/3/4/5/6% + 0.03% bonus AD)
- Sundering Slam | damage: (50/75/100/125/150 + 60% bonus AD) + (2/3/4/5/6% + 0.03% bonus AD)
- Deals an additional 50 – 75 (based on level) physical damage to monsters. Percent of max health damage to monsters is capped at 100 – 300 (based on level)
W – Repudiation
- Ambessa gains a shield for 1.5 seconds and braces herself for 0.5 seconds. She then slams the ground, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies, which increases if she braced herself from damage from an enemy champion, large monster, or structure.
- Cooldown: 18/17/16/15/14 seconds
- Cost: 70 energy
- Shiled: 85 – 250 (based on level) + 150% bonus AD
- Damage: 50/75/100/125/150 + 50% bonus AD
- Empowered damage: 80/105/130/155/180 + 80% bonus AD
E – Lacerate
- Ambessa whips her chains around, dealing physical damage and slowing enemies by 99%, which decays over 1 second. Initiating Drakehound’s Step from this ability will trigger an additional strike.
- Cooldown: 13/12/11/10/9 seconds
- Cost: 13 seconds
- Damage: 40/70/100/130/160 + 40/50/60/70/80% bonus AD
R – Public Execution
- Passive: Ambessa gains armor penetration and her abilities heal for a part of the damage she dealt.
- Active: Ambessa becomes Unstoppable and blinks to the farthest enemy champion in a line, suppressing the target for 0.75 seconds and then slamming them into the ground, dealing physical damage and stunning them for 0.4 seconds.
- Cooldown: 130/115/100 seconds
- Armor penetration: 10/20/30%
- Healing: 10/12.5/15%
- Damage: 150/250/350 + 100% bonus AD
- Healing is 25% effective against minions and 40% effective against monsters.
