Ambessa Fights with Vi! Who won?

[@Bluey306]

on rewatch, i'm also impressed that ambessa kind of catches on quickly that vi was up to something when she starts speaking. she's listening carefully and her eyes stay on vi, as opposed to the typical villain who might scoff when their captured protag is saying something sassy or unrelated or whatever. when ambessa prompts vi, "and the third?", it's serious and guarded - she still doesn't know where vi is going with this, but she _knows_ it's somewhere, even if it's just a smidge too late. no less expected from a general such as herself. (so it's still extremely cool that vi - and cait - could get one over ambessa, with just _enough_ guile.)

[@braedonbourque8327]

Crazy how this is a video game adaptation and they gave us a quick time event

[@MM-xx7xe]

I thought Ambessa meant she filled the void with mentoring and training Caitlyn for war, but it actually further alluded to Caitlyn's side piece being a plant.

[@shadeofshattered3]

I know ambessa would destroy vi but it would of been interesting to see a fist fight

[@Aralluen]

I think it might be close, with vanders gauntlets it would be close to even imo

[@meskahmusic]

Ambessa geared up is match to only Warwick (arcane i never played the game)

[@alexdinu589]

Vi is no push over she went she held her own against warwick

[@IsaacHozz]

@@alexdinu589 you commented this 12 minutes before I could.

[@ALEXD4WN]

@@alexdinu589her and Jayce vs Ambessa would’ve been fucking sick

[@TempestGhost]

There are two main of antagonists in Arcane, the one that talks and the one that talks too much. Silco talks but he’s allowed to. He’s typically the one in control of a conversation and sometimes his words speaks volumes about his goal and his experiences. Ambessa just talks too much. I mean sure she’s a Noxian and they are proud warriors. However she comes across as too desperate and in small victories or cases such as this, she’s too busy acting high and mighty that she was too slow to read the situation.

[@CriticasDeCriticas]

She insists she is a wolf... and you know? She is right But wolves are not known for being smart creatures

[@yunantheobserver6841]

To me; Ambessa just gives off tourist vibes. A big fish in the sea who decided to swam back into the little pond. Too bad; the fish here have been through hell and back by being easy pickings by the birds.

[@hugod9131]

That's Cait's E

[@krzysztofczajka6752]

C should've have just snap Singed's neck. There you go. The end. The cycle was broken. He never resurrected Victor and so Victor never achieved the glorious evolution

[@hanaqu]

I feel that what they should have done here is, instead of showing Caitlyn and Vi conversation before this scene, just transition from Caitlyn tackling Vi to her taking Vi to Ambessa. And then, when Vi frees herself, show the whole scene where they talk and plot against her.

[@emperortime2356]

Yes it would increase the suspends even more.

[@Yvädastra]

Its scenes like this where I feel like the writers had to make Ambessa suddenly incompetent to progress the plot due to time constraints. She's better than this. She wouldn't be in this tent without guards nearby, and she wouldn't be wasting her time lecturing someone whom she has no reason not to kill immediately.

[@MM-xx7xe]

You're right. That's how she survived the initial Black Rose assination. Instead, the one she trusted was tailing Caitlyn instead this time.

[@rvtrash4029]

In her own words: "Desperation is the doorway to oblivion..." I felt Ambessa at this point was too consumed by power and glory to defeat the Black Rose and conquer Piltover that she didn't immediately realize this was a ruse. Ambessa is a talker and this is shown lots of times in the show. The only reason she was able to stab Amara was due to her being distracted aftet Rictus broke free from the trap with the runes.

[@_friedtofu]

her guards were outside (as explained by Caitlyn in order for Vi to escape without being noticed) and it's her personal tent she wasn't really expecting any threat to come and attack her. That's why the fake out worked.

[@Dan-or6zb]

Nah, she’s shown in different settings in season 1 & 2 constantly without retinue or guards. The only person she allows to regularly shadow her is Rictor, who we already know gets sent out to complete missions independently, like he was doing at this moment. Ambessa was beaten because she was too confident of her control of the people around her. Yeah was smarter than them & manipulated them from day 1 and she was a better fighter than them & used both Mel & Caitlyn like chew toys during the duel. But she’s flawed as all the characters are. Not being invincible is nothing to be disappointed about, and her Achilles heal is obvious & established multiple times. She fully believed she knew exactly what all her opponents were capable of at all times, and she was wrong.

[@margarethmichelina5146]

I noticed that since Season One, Vi is the only character who constantly say "Fuck"

[@duxfot6998]

Honestly i expected alot more from ambessa. After her amazing introduction, i expected a menacing warmonger outsmarting all our main characters without breaking a sweat. What we got is a vulnerable desparate vengeful mother who makes emotional mistakes and horrible decisions.

[@tvna5404]

The Ambessa we see is an Ambessa who has already failed on many counts, especially with the Black Rose. She is using her past legacy as a front to demand authority. In reality she is a cornered and dying wolf, way past its prime.

[@Dan-or6zb]

Oh no the show about desperate people who make emotional decisions & horrible mistakes didn’t make the bad guy I liked the one special exception from the theme 😢

[@mujtabaomar880]

The fact that we see strong characters be vulnerable shows that they're not invincible They're human And humans are far from perfect

[@gl64plushshow3]

Isn’t that just the annoying cliche girl boss that a lot of people are tired of. Makes for a pretty boring character. Her being the emotionally suppressed mother and warmonger is exactly what this show sports with how unbelievably tragic the story is.

[@Chris_Knight7]

Bruh... She manipulated an entire city into going to war with Zaun, used their higher liders as puppets for her purpouse and destroyed everyone in the battlefield. She's still human tho, humans bleed, GROW UP... That's why the character is so good, despite of her being so good at everything she does she is still human.