  A holographic description of three-dimensional warped black holes suffers
from ambiguities due to a seemingly harmless choice of coordinate system. This
gives rise to the notion of ensembles in warped black holes, and we focus on
two of them: the canonical and quadratic ensemble. Our aim is to quantify the
imprint of these ensembles in the near-extremal limit of a warped black hole.
To this end, for each ensemble, we explore the thermodynamic response and
evaluate greybody factors. We also set-up a holographic dictionary in their
near-AdS$_2$ region, and decode aspects of the dual near-CFT$_1$. This gives us
different perspectives of the black hole that we can contrast and compare. On
the one hand, we find perfect agreement between the near-extremal limit of the
canonical ensemble warped black holes, their near-AdS$_2$ effective analysis,
and a warped conformal field theory description. On the other, we are led to
rule out the quadratic ensemble due to inconsistencies at the quantum level
with the near-AdS$_2$ effective description.
