With Arcane Season Two just around the corner, Riot Games is fully immersing its games in as much of the Arcane universe as possible. And it all starts with Ambessa, League of Legends’ newest champion.

Arcane fans should already be familiar with Ambessa Medarda from season one of the series, and they'll be happy to see that the devs at Riot have cemented her character in League as a top-lane one-vs-one specialist who thrives in the hands of cunning and tactical players who like to isolate their fights. Gifted with a barrage of dashes via her Drakhound's Step passive, Ambessa strikes and repositions quickly after casting her abilities, and her ultimate, the ominously named Public Execution, allows the Noxian warrior to be as brutal as she needs to be.

“We wanted her combat to feel very visceral,” game designer Max Perlman told media during an Arcane-themed preview event, highlighting how Ambessa’s buffered dashes from her passives quickly became the backbone of her design. “We wanted her combat to feel intentional and proactive.”

With so many dashes to keep track of, and each one only thanks to a player’s movement or attack input entered during one of her abilities, Ambessa isn’t for the faint of heart in APM. Perlman noted that she’s not a beginner’s champ, though some players can pick her up and be “functional” with her kit. Perlman also highlighted how Ambessa brings relatively little to teamfights compared to other champs, and that all those dashes – a word many League players read with outright concern – come at the cost of not having a stun ability, making her a champ “forced to build aggressively instead of building healthily.” As such, Ambessa players will have to choose their fights wisely.