The fact Caitlyn just straight up punched Ambessa mid-speech and shouted “Shut up and fight!”, with a knife in the gut, shows the massive iron ovaries she’s carrying. *salute*
@@swearv3396 No joke. The vice-dean from from the university I used to go to. She once had us in an staff assembly for the Housing department, and she used the phrase "your iron balls or platinum ovaries" to steel us for another year of dealing with dorm residents.
Leblanc INSTANTLY trapping Ambessa is so scary. I like that in the show, they SHOW how strong magic is compared to normal fighting. The only way you can fight magic is with magic.
@@vokdmso9898 I don't think so, mages are way too outnumbered. Demacia has an actual army, petricide weapons and petricide constructs. Demacia has elite unites other than the Mage Seekers. Even Noxus with their armies and mages can't easily destroy Demacia. Doubt that the fewer and less trained mages in demacia could "destroy" them
It`s true but it`s also a show. LeBlanc herself says it to Mel: "If we wanted to kill you a normal blade would do just fine!" Mages are few and far in between, Magic in Runeterra isn`t just like cheating. As Hextech shows Magic has rules and a price. It`s how the Mageseekers in Damacia can control the mages. Numbers, understanding magic and social norms.
Caitlyn and Mel needed many more scenes together. Also, Caitlyn sacrificing her eye to get those stones off of Ambessa's arms was a tough price to pay.
@@Elektrikkisswell, it wasn’t until it was. I imagine she wanted to get the stones off without losing an eye, but once she realized she was going to lose an eye and couldn’t stop it from happening she took advantage of the situation to make it an even trade (more than even, though I doubt she knew that when she did it).
i feel like she was sure she wouldn't make it out alive. Cait made the sacrifice counsciously but it wasn't only her eye, she was putting her god damn life there
Exactly! Mel and Cait ate very cunning. They observe people and situations and think things through. As much as I love them Vi and Jayce are the opposite. Very impulsive and swings with the wind of their emotions. Not very bright lmao
@@suzujizu She was the strongest among all of the characters, she was a wolf. Also she never scared from leblanc, she was preparing to fight with that witch the whole season. You look like you never watched arcane season 2
I quite like the detail that Ambessa goes for Caitlyn’s left (non dominant) eye. I suspect it’s just supposed to be so Caitlyn keeps her shooting eye, but it would ABSOLUTELY be in character for Ambessa to deliberately not hinder Caitlyn’s combat skills, even while maiming her.
I dont know man - if she tooke caits dominant eye you would argue that its a nice detail ambessa is so smart that she would weaken her opponents greatest assets.
I just _loved_ all the casual disrespect Ambessa got in her last moments. First her most valuable spy gets offed in the most humiliating way, then her moment of triumph gets ruined by Jinx pulling up with her whole crib and crew and Kpop, then her big villain monologue gets interrupted by Cait unceremoniously slapping her in the face, and finally she's handed over on a silver platter to the people she fears the most by the daughter she thought was weak. Poetry all around.
@@Catras_unfairly_gorgeous_smirk Serves Ambessa right for sticking her unwanted nose into Piltover and helping Viktor almost wreck the universe 😻 The cherry on top for me was Cait punching her before she could finish her sentence 🤣
0:58 despite this being a very tense scene I always cackle at the way Mel shoves the random Noxians weapon to the side. It’s nothing but pure pettiness and I love it.
I have seen this fight of Caitlyn and Mel teaming up against Ambessa many times. Of all the fights that were happening in the last episode, this one is definitely my favorite. Caitlyn and Mel made such a good team, each one taking turns to attack Ambessa and Mel constantly trying to protect Caitlyn throughout the fight. Top notch
I found it weird that you think taking turns attacking Ambessa is a good strategy. It's good for the show, as you can clearly see each action; but if you have a 2-on-1 advantage, you attack at the same time so the opponent can't parry both of you.
@@oldrabbit8290 Offensive is not always the smart way to attack. Also, this is like the type of combat you see in Arcane, a fight of honor, not to death. taking times and breaks to fight like a respectful warrior.
@oldrabbit8290 It would be true in a neutral fight but here Mel is only just starting to control her powers, if they fought at the same time, along with the fact that they've absolutely never even seen each other fight let alone doing so side by side, it would only result in a very high risk of friendly fire and getting in the other's way
@@troljynx9953 Not to mention that if Ambessa hadn't held back with Mel so as not to hurt her, this match would have ended much less than this video lasted.
at 2:40 you can clearly see how proud Abessa is of her daughter, and how much she loved her. This death scene was so powerful and heartbreaking. Abessa was many things but no matter what she always a mother who wanted what was best for her children. She was willing to be the villain if it meant Mel became her most powerful and wise self, after all she told Caitlyn "I have found a fourth virtue, Sacrifice.". I loved Ambessa and her character was so well written.
It was all very bittersweet. Ambessa wished to keep her family safe at the expense of everyone else's lives. Mel, however, stood up for the greater good because she felt it was wrong. It was so heartbreaking to watch them say their goodbyes and Mel embrace Ambessa.
@@rashta5817 Well, what's your point? As I mentioned, she still wished to protect her family, which is exactly what she says in the series. But her actions had repercussions and hurt her family as well.
Remember kids when you feel disrespected just know Rito gave the legendary skin to Ambessa just to kill her off not even a month after release over Kindreds 9 years of service.
Are you even insane? What does that matters. Just because she has a new skin doesn’t automatically means she must live to suit your dumb ass mind. 🤦♂️
The skin is actually lorewise what supposedly happens after she dies. She was tested by Kindred as a champion of the wolf, but as she was accepted she was revived by Mel in the womb.
I feel like the moment in the beginning of ep 8 happened around the time of ep 4, which would make it possible that she had to WALK from god knows where back to Piltover and get there somewhat on time, so she had that whole way to learn some tricks
There was unfortunatelt a big timeskip for Mel, she was likely missing for months while training with the Black Rose, the show just doesnt convey that too well
@@LinumSAT true, and it’s not like she uses words to cast. Seems like it’s pretty innate, and she’s learning exactly what all she can do. But def seems very intuitive and versatile so this should be pretty fun. Seems like light manipulation and bending, and the mirror technique is pique!
Ambessa is a 57 year old woman that still moves and hits like a woman a third of her age, especially that faux takedown kick at 0:34 that nearly knocked Caitlyn out.
Ambessa doesn't fight she kills, Caitlyn still didn't realize the way Ambessa held back. Mel knows her mother and knew from the moment Cait threw the weapon to Ambessa to be on guard. Big difference from when she stood stunned at witnessing, Ambessa kill the girl in season one. I don't think Ambessa held back on Caitlyn, her first fight in the dojo she did, during war Ambessa has no mercy. However, she gave Mel love taps. At first, I thought she put her knee in Mels' face, but it was actually Mels' stomach. She was defended and knocking Mel Back whilst giving Caitlyn that brutal ass whoopin. Showing just her much she still loves and covets Mel. They did a great job creating this character and this show. It also does look as if she Let Caitlyn keep her good shooting eye, like a deliberate choice.
I think her goal was to spare Cait as well when she beats her but make damn sure she will remember to never cross her again if she submitted. Another thing is that Mel is not as tough as Caitlyn as she still reels from Ambessa's restrained attacks, showing that she's not as hardened by combat as Cait and especially her mother.
@@FFVogter.-em6zz It's hard to say. Considering Ambessa was fully okay with killing Cait by having Maddie shoot her just minutes prior and then throwing a spear right at her, I don't see why she would care to spare her now. She was absolutely beating Cait to kill her. And she is actively sparing Mel. It may seem like she's holding back on Cait but she has to deal with Mel's attacks and defenses simultaneously, so she can't beat just Cait nonstop. But she does take a pause, takes off her mask and says "you fought well child" instead of continuing to beat her, as if the fight was over to her and she thought Cait lost. So it seems maybe she spares Cait at the end (though you can't say for sure if she would have finished the job in the next moment), but she was not holding back during the fight and would have absolutely killed her if she could. Since Mel was still on guard, maybe she did spare Cait at the end. I guess that's the warrior part in Ambessa.
She does but Ambessa is also arrogant. Yes she didn´t go for the kill... but only partially out of concern and partially due to the arrogance that she could never imagine Mel or Caitlyn beating her. She still sees them as fragile and weak.
0:18 The moment from the kick onwards to her donning her mask with the orchestral strings swelling is so badass. It’s like a display of Noxian strength and might
It is incredible that Caitlyn with a stab in the stomach without Arcane or Magic weapons made three significant hits to Ambessa. a cut on the leg to make it slower and prevent it from jumping, a cut on the runes to remove its arcane defenses and a punch in the face to shut its mouth. We have not seen such an uprising of courage since Vander 😢
I'd argue that saying that completely ignores Ekko's entire character. I'd stick him right up there with the likes of Vander and Cait, if not even higher. But totally agree that Cait was amazing in this fight
Cait/Mel botlane trying to shut down the fed Toplaner. Midlaner LeBlanc roams to help them. Mel support steals the kill with her ult. LeBlanc disconnects from the game.
@ If you look closely she disn’t take the dagger out of her stomach, the dagger lying on the floor is the dagger ambessa used to cut caitlyn’s eye. She ripped the runes off.
can u imagine if she had been in her top form during this fight? not saying she wouldn’t still be bodied by ambessa, force of nature that she is, but imagine how much MORE epic the back and forth would be.
I think Jinx and Warwick are still alive😊. I read somewhere that Riot would make a comic about scenes they didn't show. For me, the most expressive eyes of the show were Cait's eyes. Beautiful. And that look at the end of season 2... Disconcerting, Worried, makes me think a lot
The best detail is how the moment before this, instead of shielding Cait from maddie's shot, Mel put a shield around maddie instead to guarantee her bullet would definitely ricochet back at her because the shield is a sphere 😂
and if you look at it closely, she didn't reflect the bullet back. no, she completely changed the bullet's trajectory so it would drive into maddie's head. instant death. mel came in mad as hell 😭
We really don't need to know the rest of the surviving character's lives. Jinx starts a new life or dies depending on interpretation, Cait, Ekko, and Vi move on from Jinx and presumably have a better future with Piltover and Zaun's relations on the upswing, Mel moves on from Piltover and comes into their own, Singed makes great progress with his daughter. Everyone get's a definitive ending to their stories.
I do appreciate the fact at how stunned caitlyn seems to be when she takes blows from Ambessa primarily at 0:44 . Are gasps and cries go a long way to show shes still rather inexperienced in H2H when against someone like Ambessa.
Which is very in line with her as a character in LoL since she's a long range character. Would have been epid to see her fight Ambessa with Vi, the actual Melee and her in her element with a long range rifle tho
@@blackjk1234in defense noxian weapons are also heavier than bullet. Piltovers rifles are made to keep the peace not for war so their bullet pen isn’t that high. If they made proper piercing ammo I’m sure would’ve succeeded in getting through.
Getting smacked in the mouth while talking to her daughter by the person she saw coming behind her yet tried to let walk past as a minor show of respect must've *really* pissed her off for at least a minute
It’s amazing to see that, in the finale of this series, the women displayed brute strength and force in combat. Meanwhile, the men, Jayce and Victor, clashed over conflicting ideologies, emotions, and trust-a dynamic rarely depicted in mainstream media or shows. This boldly challenges gender norms, showcasing that women can be both strong and cunning, while men can exhibit emotional and intellectual depth. Arcane truly is an unforgettable experience!
rare? that's like everything in the media nowadays. Women = physically stronk and Men = something else. It's way too much. Arcane doesn't even have a single pretty character.
This whole sequence was fantastic. Ambessa's incredible to watch, and Caitlyn fighting her so desperately and intelligently, knowing she can't afford to lose and just what it's going to cost to win, just shines. Cool moment for Mel too, though nothing tops her giving Maddie the ol' snowglobe of death treatment.
i love the detail that the soldiers slam down their spears and lower their heads. they acknowledge their leader is dead and the duel has concluded they lower their heads both as a sign of mourning and a sign of them acknowledging mel as their new leader
I love how Ambessa ended up dying by her two daughters applying the lessons she taught them (yes I think she saw Cait as a daughter). Cait learned the sacrifice and Mel learned to be a wolf. You can even see a subtle smile when she looks at Mel in her final sentence. And Ambessa didn't learn from Cait though since she literally went for "too much force exposes you to risk", by forcing the knife on Cait she let her take off the runes. I love how all those lessons showed up in a freaking good fight.
Ambessa is a true Noxus loyal soldier. She made Samira's imitation for Noxus. Also she tried to get the Hextech to fight against Black Rose. Altho failled, but her daughter awakened as a mage. What a great soldier!
This scene alone where she agrees to a 1v2 without breaking a sweat shows that Ambessa was a war beast and a vet of countless conflicts, it was her nature. Quoting Temari from Naruto, they were a hundred years to young for this fight
i couldn't help but notice the comparison between the major blows cait and mel took from ambessa. cait got a full-blown roundhouse kick to the head while mel just got kneed in the stomach. the amount of control ambessa had to not maim her daughter
@@nhatlehong350if she’s dead, how is she fights in league of legends? She isn’t undead like Yone or Morde, she’s alive and well. Ambessa 100% bullied Kindred into giving her life back.
Are you impressed that someone bothered to animate that? Because if you watch it, there's a scene with more blood from the eye and then at the end she has an eye patch
@@Teemo6544I don't care how honourable I am if someone smack me in the mouth after I let them walk by me you better hope you survive before I get my composure back xDD
Even this scene felt so bitter sweet in the end, like, yes, they won, but at what cost? Cait lost her eye and Mel lost her mom. I love how tragic this show can be even in moments of victory. And the way Ambessa seems so proud of Mel even after she’s killed her reminds me so much of Silco and Jinx, with the ‘you’re perfect’ scene; I really think this is Ambessa’s version of that
Just seeing the fight, you can tell Ambessa is putting more power into her shots on Caitlyn, but seems more restrained with her daughter. Like she was hoping to put Caitlyn away early enough to give her time to reason with Mel or if that fails, to take her alive.
It's funny she kind of respects it. Especially given she was going to give Caitlyn about as petty and dishonorable a death as she could think, even after everything.
Noxus culture is about at times actions speaking louder than words. Caitlyn may be her enemy, but her going for the jab and challenging Ambessa even with a stab wound is something to respect.
"Is there anything so undoing as a daughter?" Kinda funny what both seasons ends with a daughter killing her parent. Damn, even Jinx almost does this again by killing Vander (well, what was left from him).
I love that Ambessa always gives her opponents respect where it’s due. Despite Ambessa’s level of skill, and how insane of a warrior she is, she never once gave me a vibe of arrogance. Personally, these are the reasons I like Ambessa. She’s very smart, very skilled, very wise, and very charismatic.
Caitlyn Took a real hard beating here, the fact she got up everytime she got knocked down is something no ons really talks about. My girl needs a lot of rest.
I love the "Queen is Dead, Long Live The Queen" vibe at the end with the soldiers. Perfectly encapsulates what Noxus is: Place for the worthy and strong.
Mel stepping through the void and pulling the chains further into her is one of the coldest moments in the show. To end it with “I see your face, deceiver” puts her as one of my favorite mage characters in all of fiction. Mel played her mom, an experienced and battle-hardened warrior, and LeBlanc, the master of manipulation and illusion, in one move. Mel is going to own the world and I’m so here for it. 🖤💛
xD Le Blanc a thousand year old mage, leader of the most powerful dark magic organization in Runeterra got embarrassed by someone that has been a mage for 24 seconds, truly a riot moment
Her type of power is probably a weakness to her type....magical usually balances in the world in every fictitious piece of writing....wait til Mel get's released to find out.
I do like that it is illustrated that Caitlyn would have died unceremoniously in 1 move if she tried to fight Ambessa hand-to-hand alone. Lore and gameplay accurate.
“You are the wolf.” Not only did ambessa say it proudly cause mel finally reached her standard of being a madardas, but also because ambessa met kindred, when mel killing her. The lore accuracy, the plot, the foreshadowing🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️ 2:39
The fact Caitlyn just straight up punched Ambessa mid-speech and shouted “Shut up and fight!”, with a knife in the gut, shows the massive iron ovaries she’s carrying. *salute*
GURL NOT IRON OVARIES HELP😭
@@swearv3396 No joke. The vice-dean from from the university I used to go to. She once had us in an staff assembly for the Housing department, and she used the phrase "your iron balls or platinum ovaries" to steel us for another year of dealing with dorm residents.
Stopp Iron ovaries is soo good🤣
Finally someone decided to shut that bitch’s mouth
That's Vi's influence
Leblanc INSTANTLY trapping Ambessa is so scary. I like that in the show, they SHOW how strong magic is compared to normal fighting. The only way you can fight magic is with magic.
Not when Demacia comes around, the Mage Seekers be on top
@@brandon.h9624tbh it’s not mageseekers being op, but more like mages wanting to fit in a society. If they wanted to, mages could destroy demacia
@@vokdmso9898 I don't think so, mages are way too outnumbered. Demacia has an actual army, petricide weapons and petricide constructs. Demacia has elite unites other than the Mage Seekers. Even Noxus with their armies and mages can't easily destroy Demacia. Doubt that the fewer and less trained mages in demacia could "destroy" them
It`s true but it`s also a show. LeBlanc herself says it to Mel: "If we wanted to kill you a normal blade would do just fine!"
Mages are few and far in between, Magic in Runeterra isn`t just like cheating. As Hextech shows Magic has rules and a price.
It`s how the Mageseekers in Damacia can control the mages. Numbers, understanding magic and social norms.
Demacia only uses magic to hunt magic.
Never thought Caitlyn and Mel would make such a good duo
Honestly gives me Caitlyn and Karma vibes
Also accurate. The adc and the support struggling to kill the top laner 🥲
And then there is Vi and Jayce.. lol
What was you watchin bro…😭😭😭
LeBlanc: bruh🤦♂️
Caitlyn and Mel needed many more scenes together. Also, Caitlyn sacrificing her eye to get those stones off of Ambessa's arms was a tough price to pay.
The 4th principle
I think it was a last resort I don't think it was intentional
@@Elektrikkisswell, it wasn’t until it was. I imagine she wanted to get the stones off without losing an eye, but once she realized she was going to lose an eye and couldn’t stop it from happening she took advantage of the situation to make it an even trade (more than even, though I doubt she knew that when she did it).
it was her aiming eye too
i feel like she was sure she wouldn't make it out alive. Cait made the sacrifice counsciously but it wasn't only her eye, she was putting her god damn life there
Mel and Cait are the duo Vi and Jayce think they are when they team up 😂
Exactly! Mel and Cait ate very cunning. They observe people and situations and think things through. As much as I love them Vi and Jayce are the opposite. Very impulsive and swings with the wind of their emotions. Not very bright lmao
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The difference of skill and just improvising. But to be fair, anyone becomes a mess with jayce.
Vi is awesome by herself, or even with jinx or ekko.
I can't 😂😂😂❤❤❤
@@joaolucaslopes1961 lmao what's your problem with jayce?
When Adc & Supp goes toplane
😂😂😂
HAHAHAHA YESSSSSSSS
Caitlyn should have said: GG FF15, 9x sup, throwing
Still needed help from mid to take down that fed toplaner.
Stolen kill. Raport supp!
Man Ambessa is so badass. The whole time her being a kinda villian i just felt so much respect for her. She is a beast.
What a beast! Scared shitless of Leblanc lmfao.
@@suzujizu scared? Even in the face of powerlessness and torment, she growls like a wolf.
@@NoLifeKing_0 lemme guess. Arcane fan only?
@@suzujizu She was the strongest among all of the characters, she was a wolf. Also she never scared from leblanc, she was preparing to fight with that witch the whole season. You look like you never watched arcane season 2
@@suzujizubeing only an arcane fan is a compliment lowkey 😭 the game changes people for the worse
I quite like the detail that Ambessa goes for Caitlyn’s left (non dominant) eye. I suspect it’s just supposed to be so Caitlyn keeps her shooting eye, but it would ABSOLUTELY be in character for Ambessa to deliberately not hinder Caitlyn’s combat skills, even while maiming her.
That's such a good catch!
they have a mentor dynamic and its hinted that ambessa did care for her to some extent
Or she is right handed .
I dont know man - if she tooke caits dominant eye you would argue that its a nice detail ambessa is so smart that she would weaken her opponents greatest assets.
Cool story bru
I just _loved_ all the casual disrespect Ambessa got in her last moments. First her most valuable spy gets offed in the most humiliating way, then her moment of triumph gets ruined by Jinx pulling up with her whole crib and crew and Kpop, then her big villain monologue gets interrupted by Cait unceremoniously slapping her in the face, and finally she's handed over on a silver platter to the people she fears the most by the daughter she thought was weak. Poetry all around.
Kpop😂
@@Teemo6544 The most dangerous weapon of them all 😂😂
@@Catras_unfairly_gorgeous_smirk
Serves Ambessa right for sticking her unwanted nose into Piltover and helping Viktor almost wreck the universe 😻
The cherry on top for me was Cait punching her before she could finish her sentence 🤣
I loved her character. She played to win. More than what most can even do
0:58 despite this being a very tense scene I always cackle at the way Mel shoves the random Noxians weapon to the side. It’s nothing but pure pettiness and I love it.
I have seen this fight of Caitlyn and Mel teaming up against Ambessa many times. Of all the fights that were happening in the last episode, this one is definitely my favorite. Caitlyn and Mel made such a good team, each one taking turns to attack Ambessa and Mel constantly trying to protect Caitlyn throughout the fight. Top notch
I found it weird that you think taking turns attacking Ambessa is a good strategy. It's good for the show, as you can clearly see each action; but if you have a 2-on-1 advantage, you attack at the same time so the opponent can't parry both of you.
@@oldrabbit8290 Offensive is not always the smart way to attack. Also, this is like the type of combat you see in Arcane, a fight of honor, not to death. taking times and breaks to fight like a respectful warrior.
@oldrabbit8290
It would be true in a neutral fight but here Mel is only just starting to control her powers, if they fought at the same time, along with the fact that they've absolutely never even seen each other fight let alone doing so side by side, it would only result in a very high risk of friendly fire and getting in the other's way
@@troljynx9953 Not to mention that if Ambessa hadn't held back with Mel so as not to hurt her, this match would have ended much less than this video lasted.
Mel just used the fucking leblanc domain expansion 😭😭
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my first thought
I forget Leblanc and the black rose guild is pulling the string for the part of it
"영역전재"
@@lemonguy5887 you forgot Swain and the plague of crows in the serie?
at 2:40 you can clearly see how proud Abessa is of her daughter, and how much she loved her. This death scene was so powerful and heartbreaking. Abessa was many things but no matter what she always a mother who wanted what was best for her children. She was willing to be the villain if it meant Mel became her most powerful and wise self, after all she told Caitlyn "I have found a fourth virtue, Sacrifice.". I loved Ambessa and her character was so well written.
It was all very bittersweet. Ambessa wished to keep her family safe at the expense of everyone else's lives. Mel, however, stood up for the greater good because she felt it was wrong. It was so heartbreaking to watch them say their goodbyes and Mel embrace Ambessa.
She shouldn't have tried to turn her daughter into a weapon for the Noxian Empire
Nah fuck that
@@amitkenan3878 Noxian mentality, all are warriors ❤❤
"Ambessa wished to keep her family safe at the expense of everyone else's lives."
Mel is the only one alive
@@rashta5817
Well, what's your point? As I mentioned, she still wished to protect her family, which is exactly what she says in the series. But her actions had repercussions and hurt her family as well.
Remember kids when you feel disrespected just know Rito gave the legendary skin to Ambessa just to kill her off not even a month after release over Kindreds 9 years of service.
Not only Ambessa.
Are you even insane? What does that matters. Just because she has a new skin doesn’t automatically means she must live to suit your dumb ass mind. 🤦♂️
Truly a RIOT moment
The skin is actually lorewise what supposedly happens after she dies. She was tested by Kindred as a champion of the wolf, but as she was accepted she was revived by Mel in the womb.
She had a good conclusion how is it disrespectful?
Mel is looking like Arcane’s version of Storm! I’m surprised at how fast she adapted to her powers!
I feel like the moment in the beginning of ep 8 happened around the time of ep 4, which would make it possible that she had to WALK from god knows where back to Piltover and get there somewhat on time, so she had that whole way to learn some tricks
There was unfortunatelt a big timeskip for Mel, she was likely missing for months while training with the Black Rose, the show just doesnt convey that too well
Desperate times require desperate measures
@@LinumSAT true, and it’s not like she uses words to cast. Seems like it’s pretty innate, and she’s learning exactly what all she can do. But def seems very intuitive and versatile so this should be pretty fun. Seems like light manipulation and bending, and the mirror technique is pique!
Catlyn used Ambessa's advice against her. Remember her monolog about sacrifice when they were training?
Ambessa is a 57 year old woman that still moves and hits like a woman a third of her age, especially that faux takedown kick at 0:34 that nearly knocked Caitlyn out.
57 divided by 3 is 19, i think it might be more accurate to say "half" as that is 28.5 and Ambessa is VERY experienced
she's a animated characters in a world with magic stuff she could win olympics while being 75 ,
not really a world to bring up age when ambessa's main enemy, leblanc, is thousands of years old yet still looks like a young woman with makeup
@@lillyie u seem sensible
Ambessa doesn't fight she kills, Caitlyn still didn't realize the way Ambessa held back. Mel knows her mother and knew from the moment Cait threw the weapon to Ambessa to be on guard.
Big difference from when she stood stunned at witnessing, Ambessa kill the girl in season one.
I don't think Ambessa held back on Caitlyn, her first fight in the dojo she did, during war Ambessa has no mercy.
However, she gave Mel love taps. At first, I thought she put her knee in Mels' face, but it was actually Mels' stomach. She was defended and knocking Mel Back whilst giving Caitlyn that brutal ass whoopin. Showing just her much she still loves and covets Mel. They did a great job creating this character and this show. It also does look as if she Let Caitlyn keep her good shooting eye, like a deliberate choice.
I think her goal was to spare Cait as well when she beats her but make damn sure she will remember to never cross her again if she submitted. Another thing is that Mel is not as tough as Caitlyn as she still reels from Ambessa's restrained attacks, showing that she's not as hardened by combat as Cait and especially her mother.
Genuinely slowed down the fight on Mel’s part because yeah she doesn’t actually seem to be trying to hurt mel
She was giving cait a good ass whoopin, I was feeling those punches and kicks
@@FFVogter.-em6zz It's hard to say. Considering Ambessa was fully okay with killing Cait by having Maddie shoot her just minutes prior and then throwing a spear right at her, I don't see why she would care to spare her now. She was absolutely beating Cait to kill her. And she is actively sparing Mel. It may seem like she's holding back on Cait but she has to deal with Mel's attacks and defenses simultaneously, so she can't beat just Cait nonstop. But she does take a pause, takes off her mask and says "you fought well child" instead of continuing to beat her, as if the fight was over to her and she thought Cait lost. So it seems maybe she spares Cait at the end (though you can't say for sure if she would have finished the job in the next moment), but she was not holding back during the fight and would have absolutely killed her if she could. Since Mel was still on guard, maybe she did spare Cait at the end. I guess that's the warrior part in Ambessa.
She does but Ambessa is also arrogant. Yes she didn´t go for the kill... but only partially out of concern and partially due to the arrogance that she could never imagine Mel or Caitlyn beating her. She still sees them as fragile and weak.
0:18 The moment from the kick onwards to her donning her mask with the orchestral strings swelling is so badass. It’s like a display of Noxian strength and might
Indeed. And Ambessa is making it clear that she needs no weapon to kill Cait and takedown Mel. Just her hands and anything to even the playing field.
It is incredible that Caitlyn with a stab in the stomach without Arcane or Magic weapons made three significant hits to Ambessa. a cut on the leg to make it slower and prevent it from jumping, a cut on the runes to remove its arcane defenses and a punch in the face to shut its mouth. We have not seen such an uprising of courage since Vander 😢
That cut doesn't count because she was blocking Mel's magic. If this were a 1 v 1, she would have died the moment she gave Ambessa the weapon
I'd argue that saying that completely ignores Ekko's entire character. I'd stick him right up there with the likes of Vander and Cait, if not even higher. But totally agree that Cait was amazing in this fight
The plot armor is strong on this one
@@Ak-6969 la armadura se llama Mel
Cait/Mel botlane trying to shut down the fed Toplaner.
Midlaner LeBlanc roams to help them.
Mel support steals the kill with her ult.
LeBlanc disconnects from the game.
honestly the funniest shit on the internet tonight
Mel earned the kill
That is exactly what really happens in every Lol game.
Stole from Gigguk
Is midlaner better than top? 😊
No shot caitlyn just fought with a dagger in the stomach
She used that dagger to cut Ambessa protection runes.
@ If you look closely she disn’t take the dagger out of her stomach, the dagger lying on the floor is the dagger ambessa used to cut caitlyn’s eye. She ripped the runes off.
@@1tz_bxnny They don't look the same. Watch the scene again.
@@1tz_bxnny nah, she pulls the dagger out of her stomach. Watch it frame by frame.
can u imagine if she had been in her top form during this fight? not saying she wouldn’t still be bodied by ambessa, force of nature that she is, but imagine how much MORE epic the back and forth would be.
If I was that guard I would have been SO mad. I was just standing there!!!
in order to be mad you'd have to be alive LMFAO 😭 (i know ur joking)
@ ha, I’d cuss them out in my last breath as I collapse. “Bitches” *dies*
Those guards are the most disciplined soldiers....pretty they are trained to obey commands and set aside their petty emotions
Complete and udder pettiness and you KNOW you can’t do shit cause Ambessa would post pone the fight to personally kick your ass
@fluffybunny6402 so disciplined they LET ZAUN RAID PILTOVER MORE THAN ONCE??? like 😭
Everyone : crying jinx falling
Me : Crying Cait sacrificed her eye
Cait is mid and a poorly written character
@@vanilla5554 nah
@@vanilla5554homie you did NOT pay attention to this show one bit LOL
I think Jinx and Warwick are still alive😊. I read somewhere that Riot would make a comic about scenes they didn't show.
For me, the most expressive eyes of the show were Cait's eyes. Beautiful. And that look at the end of season 2... Disconcerting, Worried, makes me think a lot
exactly
No villain monologuing when Caitlyn's around 💅
shut up and fight 🗣🔊
Last time she couldn't stop a villain mobologue her mom died
@@middlehavenracer007 shut up and fight 🗣️
This finale had me on the edge of my seat the entire episode
The best detail is how the moment before this, instead of shielding Cait from maddie's shot, Mel put a shield around maddie instead to guarantee her bullet would definitely ricochet back at her because the shield is a sphere 😂
and if you look at it closely, she didn't reflect the bullet back. no, she completely changed the bullet's trajectory so it would drive into maddie's head. instant death. mel came in mad as hell 😭
As she should! Maddie was trifling as hell
They should've shown us so much more and they left us with so many unanswered questions... This show deserves more than two seasons...
We really don't need to know the rest of the surviving character's lives. Jinx starts a new life or dies depending on interpretation, Cait, Ekko, and Vi move on from Jinx and presumably have a better future with Piltover and Zaun's relations on the upswing, Mel moves on from Piltover and comes into their own, Singed makes great progress with his daughter. Everyone get's a definitive ending to their stories.
@TheMojoWorks Not really. They all just get a bad ending. There is still more to tell in Arcane, sadly...
I do appreciate the fact at how stunned caitlyn seems to be when she takes blows from Ambessa primarily at 0:44 . Are gasps and cries go a long way to show shes still rather inexperienced in H2H when against someone like Ambessa.
At least she will be able to keep pace with Vi when they train now
Which is very in line with her as a character in LoL since she's a long range character. Would have been epid to see her fight Ambessa with Vi, the actual Melee and her in her element with a long range rifle tho
@@jhervis_I would’ve love to see vi versus ambessa, even though I’m certain Ambessa would absolutely deck vi without the gauntlets.
Imagine how hard Ambessa threw that spear if it managed to pierce through that soldier's armour AFTER it had been deflected by the magic barrier
No joke, remember that in episode 1 Noxian soldiers threw spear and pierce those chembaron minion like butter while guns are useless.
@@blackjk1234in defense noxian weapons are also heavier than bullet. Piltovers rifles are made to keep the peace not for war so their bullet pen isn’t that high. If they made proper piercing ammo I’m sure would’ve succeeded in getting through.
@@TAWMUD a bullet is but a few grams heavy, if you didn't know. Of course the spear is heavier. And Ambessa is just THAT strong.
Getting smacked in the mouth while talking to her daughter by the person she saw coming behind her yet tried to let walk past as a minor show of respect must've *really* pissed her off for at least a minute
It’s amazing to see that, in the finale of this series, the women displayed brute strength and force in combat. Meanwhile, the men, Jayce and Victor, clashed over conflicting ideologies, emotions, and trust-a dynamic rarely depicted in mainstream media or shows. This boldly challenges gender norms, showcasing that women can be both strong and cunning, while men can exhibit emotional and intellectual depth. Arcane truly is an unforgettable experience!
rare? that's like everything in the media nowadays. Women = physically stronk and Men = something else. It's way too much. Arcane doesn't even have a single pretty character.
@@janmil5630there’s still time to delete your comment
@@janmil5630surely you must mean another word besides pretty. Look at Mel in this scene.
@@janmil5630 Caitlyn, Vi, Jinx/Powder, Mel, Skye and even Ambessa are all pretty as hell. What the fuck are you talking about?
@@janmil5630NOT TO MENTION VIKTOR
0:14 the subtle foreshadowing that she was gonna lose her left eye in the battle
Hey good catch
@Eljettto1877 arcane never runs out of easter eggs :)
Great catch!
It is cool, isn't it? They kept showing it throughout the series.
This whole sequence was fantastic. Ambessa's incredible to watch, and Caitlyn fighting her so desperately and intelligently, knowing she can't afford to lose and just what it's going to cost to win, just shines. Cool moment for Mel too, though nothing tops her giving Maddie the ol' snowglobe of death treatment.
Cait pulls out the knife from her gut, takes the blade to her eye, and cuts off the talismans. Her sacrifice play is next level.
i love the detail that the soldiers slam down their spears and lower their heads. they acknowledge their leader is dead and the duel has concluded they lower their heads both as a sign of mourning and a sign of them acknowledging mel as their new leader
i Fcking love how ambessa gets trapped IMMEDIATELY. this magic is so freaking cool
Never gonna over the fact caitlyn lost her eye 😢
I'm just disappointed that eyepatch wasn't cooler
but she really deserved it! she deserved to take a permanent damage in this fight after all the bullshit she had done
@@AleksandraSetsumeiain't no way bro mad abt tht 💀
@@AleksandraSetsumeiWTF?
She can always get an artificial eye.
I love how Ambessa ended up dying by her two daughters applying the lessons she taught them (yes I think she saw Cait as a daughter). Cait learned the sacrifice and Mel learned to be a wolf. You can even see a subtle smile when she looks at Mel in her final sentence. And Ambessa didn't learn from Cait though since she literally went for "too much force exposes you to risk", by forcing the knife on Cait she let her take off the runes. I love how all those lessons showed up in a freaking good fight.
Ambessa is a true Noxus loyal soldier. She made Samira's imitation for Noxus. Also she tried to get the Hextech to fight against Black Rose. Altho failled, but her daughter awakened as a mage. What a great soldier!
This scene alone where she agrees to a 1v2 without breaking a sweat shows that Ambessa was a war beast and a vet of countless conflicts, it was her nature. Quoting Temari from Naruto, they were a hundred years to young for this fight
Cait is crazy for even being able to stand up during all that.
Caitlyn really is _SO_ lucky that Mel kept using her abilities to shield her.
I have to appreciate Cait‘s grit. Not letting a little thing like a knife in the gut keep her from fighting a seasoned warrior.
They make caitlyn a damn pirate now.
She is Samira now
@@assgardianoFor Noxus!! Ambessa is the greatest loyal soldier.
"Mah parents named me after my great grandma Matilda the Pirate"
i couldn't help but notice the comparison between the major blows cait and mel took from ambessa. cait got a full-blown roundhouse kick to the head while mel just got kneed in the stomach. the amount of control ambessa had to not maim her daughter
No that can´t be, mommy is alive and safe just going 1v1 with Kindred and Wolf to get respawned
Nope she died, accept it bro
@@nhatlehong350if she’s dead, how is she fights in league of legends? She isn’t undead like Yone or Morde, she’s alive and well. Ambessa 100% bullied Kindred into giving her life back.
@nhatlehong350 bro mordekaiser died but in the league why cant she go to the way?
@@siskohwat473 Gangplank is dead with his Deadman's Plate, friend.
@@PremiumMaple1125 Mordekaiser dying is kinda his thing
I just noticed at 1:25 if you look carefully at Caitlyn’s face you can see blood dripping from her face
Well yes… she just lost(?)/injured her eye
@@reimisia Like, ain't that obvious? lmao
Are you impressed that someone bothered to animate that? Because if you watch it, there's a scene with more blood from the eye and then at the end she has an eye patch
You're right!
@@reimisiayes, she lost her eye.
Ambessa is absolutely terrifying and this was without her main weapons
Crazy how Caitlyn would have been dead in the first seconds of the "fight" if Mel wouldn't be there. Really tells you how powerful Ambessa was.
To be fair; she expecting a fair honourable melee fight but Ambessa was not playing around 😂
@@Teemo6544I don't care how honourable I am if someone smack me in the mouth after I let them walk by me you better hope you survive before I get my composure back xDD
Vinland saga vibes with Askeladd/Ambessa and Thorfinn/Cait
+ Askeladd and Thorfinn are a lot like Silco and Jinx too respectively @@Teemo6544
Even this scene felt so bitter sweet in the end, like, yes, they won, but at what cost? Cait lost her eye and Mel lost her mom. I love how tragic this show can be even in moments of victory. And the way Ambessa seems so proud of Mel even after she’s killed her reminds me so much of Silco and Jinx, with the ‘you’re perfect’ scene; I really think this is Ambessa’s version of that
God so much foreshadowing with Caits eye and even in this fight Ambessas first throw the camera zooms in right on the eye she loses lol
Just seeing the fight, you can tell Ambessa is putting more power into her shots on Caitlyn, but seems more restrained with her daughter. Like she was hoping to put Caitlyn away early enough to give her time to reason with Mel or if that fails, to take her alive.
Cait be like "Fuck your monologue, who do you think you are, a comic book villain?!"
That's how OP the 2900g item is.
Meanwhile, Cait has a 300g dagger and Mel isn't even a champion 😂
I think she bout to be released as a supp mid champ
She will be one the champs released in 2025
Yet
@@wallyspencer3253 Get ready to deal with skill shots reflecting back at you
I like that ambessa wasn't even annoyed at that sucker punch lol
It's funny she kind of respects it. Especially given she was going to give Caitlyn about as petty and dishonorable a death as she could think, even after everything.
Noxus culture is about at times actions speaking louder than words. Caitlyn may be her enemy, but her going for the jab and challenging Ambessa even with a stab wound is something to respect.
I seriously thought that Cait would die there, damn girl i was so worried
Gotta hand it to Caitlyn she held herself well in a close range combat against ambessa despite her being a sniper (mostly)
And injured! She's carrying a push knife in her side this whole time
She didn't tho. In a 1 v 1, she wouldn't have even touched Ambessa
@@seismic6435Quite literally, that first spear throw would've skewered her head into one of her soldier's shield
"Is there anything so undoing as a daughter?"
Kinda funny what both seasons ends with a daughter killing her parent.
Damn, even Jinx almost does this again by killing Vander (well, what was left from him).
This fight was absolutely crazy
Ambessa has never hurt Mel so much as a scratch, even in battle, because she is her mother.
0:46 That backhand slap from Ambessa went so hard I thought I got slapped
Man the way Ambessa kicked both Caitlyn and Mel asses shows how much experienced she was in combat.
Ambessa was really dog walking them until Caitlyn took her amulets. Like she really beat Caitlyn and Mel six ways to Sunday 😂
In a weird way, this was Ambessa fighting against both her daughters
Her biological daughter she actually loves vs her other daughter she uses
This Ass Whooping was legendary 😂 Yo my dude 😮 we need a breakdown of this beatdown😂
She beat both of their asses😅.....and was still holding back 💀 and kinda underestimate Mel & Cait's tactical agility (not so much their strengths)
The anger on Caitlyn's face👁️👄👁️
"Sly girl" that sounds really Leblanc
2:36 Crows. Swain is watching.
I love that Ambessa always gives her opponents respect where it’s due. Despite Ambessa’s level of skill, and how insane of a warrior she is, she never once gave me a vibe of arrogance. Personally, these are the reasons I like Ambessa. She’s very smart, very skilled, very wise, and very charismatic.
The fact that Ambessa is 2v1'ing Cait and Mel is crazy, just like how she can easily do it ingame as well 💀
Caitlyn kept getting up and fighting even after getting stabbed and all the punches and kicks she got from Ambessa, such a badass
Ambessa is literally so badass it's a 2v1 one of them is armed w a knife and the other has fking magic!! AND SHE WAS STILL WINNING W JUST HANDS
RIP Noxian grunt number 16. (2024-2024)
"Caught a stray due to weaponized mommy issues"
ambessa was winning 2v1 in the river til the fed leblanc mid came out of nowhere
2:17 - Leblanc oddly looks proud of Mel here
Cait punching Ambessa in the face before she could finish her sentence 😭
Obsessed with Caitlyn's "Shut up and fight"
Ambessa is a fucking UNIT.
Arcane teaches: As a Top player don't go 1vs2 against support and ADC, if you have only 1 item and it's for AP resists.
lol
She still won though, mid laner had to come down to 3v1 Ambessa
@@brandon.h9624 and the sup stole the kill
0:15 me being the collateral damage of someone’s heartbreak
For basically 3 versus 1, Ambessa still put up an impressive fight. I’ll give her that
Caitlyn Took a real hard beating here, the fact she got up everytime she got knocked down is something no ons really talks about. My girl needs a lot of rest.
😢 I am not crying , but you’re crying again-
You are the wolf….. 🐺
Kindred!?
Bruh, there are plenty more wolfs besides kindred
no
Im not sayin SHE is Kindred no… But I do wanna see the Lamb and the Wolf 😇
She’s just saying she graduated from being a Fox, and became a Wolf.
“If u want to last in this world
You must learn to be both the fox AND the wolf”
I love the "Queen is Dead, Long Live The Queen" vibe at the end with the soldiers. Perfectly encapsulates what Noxus is: Place for the worthy and strong.
Mel stepping through the void and pulling the chains further into her is one of the coldest moments in the show. To end it with “I see your face, deceiver” puts her as one of my favorite mage characters in all of fiction.
Mel played her mom, an experienced and battle-hardened warrior, and LeBlanc, the master of manipulation and illusion, in one move. Mel is going to own the world and I’m so here for it. 🖤💛
ambessa died fucking proud of the daughters she helped raise
xD Le Blanc a thousand year old mage, leader of the most powerful dark magic organization in Runeterra got embarrassed by someone that has been a mage for 24 seconds, truly a riot moment
Give it a month, then Riot will do some post-release nerfs and hype up the next champ
Her type of power is probably a weakness to her type....magical usually balances in the world in every fictitious piece of writing....wait til Mel get's released to find out.
Tru, Mels magic just specializes on shields and dispelling. And that what she did.
Embarrassed? She achieved her objective, and all Mel did was kill a single clone. She didn't get Embarrassed at all
Thousand year old "deciever" was face-revealed by 1day old "defense magic witch" you mean?
1:33 when the 10-0 midlaner roams top after you barely won a 1v2
Ambessa mothering Mel and Caitlyn at the same time.
I never thought Cait would win many close combats like this. Sevika, Vi and then Ambessa 😅
Ambessa had that tough unstoppable Thanos vibe
I do like that it is illustrated that Caitlyn would have died unceremoniously in 1 move if she tried to fight Ambessa hand-to-hand alone. Lore and gameplay accurate.
“You are the wolf.”
Not only did ambessa say it proudly cause mel finally reached her standard of being a madardas, but also because ambessa met kindred, when mel killing her.
The lore accuracy, the plot, the foreshadowing🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️ 2:39
I like how ambessa uses her leg *noticeably more* after it got slashed
favorite fight coz it had me sitting at the edge of my seat
For some reason, I feel like Ambessa is not trying to kill Caitlyn here, she could have finished the fight if she used her weapons
Probably planned to capture her and then publicly execute her once she gained control over the city
she launched a spear at her head literally the first second of the fight lol
@@clearfruit7901 she did, but still, seem a lot less brutal than she usually
If she had used her twins drake hounds, then Cait and Mel are both gone in seconds 😅
you gotta give it to cait for attacking ambessa hand to hand when shes basically trained her whole life as a sniper, so glad mel was there tho
Cait honestly has that dog in her!