Orianna Build Guide by Cubby1313

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Introduction

Welcome And

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to my first ever guide! And who better to start with than my favorite League of Legends Champion: Orianna! The Lady of Clockwork

If you want to learn how to make other players say "Pro Ori... Best I've seen" Read On! Be warned: This is an extremely In-Depth Guide and takes a good amount of time to take in all of the information presented. Please feel free to leave any comments or concerns and I will address them accordingly :)
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Now a little back story:
I have been playing Orianna since the day she was released and she has taken a special place in my

Unfortunately she made the ticking stop and now I am pretty much screwed...

DISCLAIMER!!!

Please note that there are several different builds in this guide, some of which I do not support for use within Ranked Games, but may fit your playing style and are somewhat viable for Normal Games. These are Builds 3 & 4 and are there just in case you are interested and want to try out a different way of building her. That being said... please don't down vote because of these builds since I have stated myself that I don't recommend builds 3 & 4 for Ranked Play.

Build Explanation

• This build creates the perfect, extremely dangerous, killing machine
• Perfect for jumping between Carry/Support roles and for turning heads
• The amount of sustainability and damage provided is second to none

• Allows for a high amount of burn damage as well as a multi-target grievous wounds
• Situational. Check out the Champion Matchup section for optimal usage

• Squishy with a weak Command: Protect due to lack of Ability Power
• Auto Attacks rip even tanky champions apart
• Orianna has a fairly short range and this puts her closer to the danger than I feel she should be
• I have successfully used this build for Dominion for fun but don’t recommend more than that

• If you insist on playing Ori as a support, here you go
• Be sure to harass often so you can get the gold bonus from Pickpocket
• Note that this build is all about figuring out what your team needs and providing it
• Full credit and thanks for this build go to Astrolia who was gracious enough to let me use the build from her Lulu Guide. This build works much better than anything I would have come up with since she is a much better support player than I am and because Lulu and Orianna have a surprisingly similar gameplay

Pros/Cons

• Unlike any other champion in the game. Her game mechanics are completely unique!
• Extremely High Survivability due to Command: Protect and Command: Dissonance
• Versatile! She can Carry, Support or Push with ease!
• Great Crowd Control with both Command: Dissonance and Command: Shockwave
• Scales very well and does a ridiculous amount of damage
• Clockwork Windup and her other spells make it oh so easy for her to farm
• Command: Attack is an excellent harassment tool that pisses so many people off
• Command: Shockwave can single handedly turn the tides in a team fight. "ACED!"
• She will "Kill your enemies"

• Extremely High Learning curve - You will NOT be perfect your first or even your tenth game!!
• You MUST constantly keep track of the ball which can be very difficult during team fights
• As with any AP Caster you will be focused, but play smart and this won't be an issue
• Timing is everything. If you mistime Command: Shockwave it WILL lose the teamfight!

Skill Breakdown

• Clockwork Windup: Orianna deals bonus magic damage that stacks after hitting the same target multiple times. Damage scales with Ability Power and therefore gets to be very powerful by the end of the game.

• Command Attack (Q): This ability has a low cooldown of 3 seconds at level 5 and is the most basic yet powerful skill Orianna possesses. It is used to farm, scout, zone defense and harass.

• Command Dissonance (W): Is your team's best friend. It is extremely versatile due to the fact that it speeds up your team and slows down any enemy champions that walk through its field as well as damaging all champions in its immediate cast range of 250. Simply put, if an ally is being chased then all you have to do is cast this little beauty in front of them and they will be well out of danger.

• Command Protect (E): This ability will save lives. Period. Whether you are casting it on yourself or if you place it on an allied champion you will make a huge difference in the enemies score by denying them kills. with the active shield that it creates. The passive on this ability is also very nice because it essentially doubles your base Magic Resistance and reduces early game magic damage by about 54%

• Command Shockwave (R): This Ultimate Is A Game Changer. Proper placement and Timing can and will turn a team fight you are losing into an Ace. Also don't forget that it will Disrupt an enemy's channeled ultimate! "Back off Katarina, you aint got nothing on me!" Another fun fact, since it moves the enemy champions it will also unstealth Teemo so be sure to pay attention to where he stops!

Here's the Proof of how devastating Ori's Ultimate can be to the Opposing Team

Skill Combinations

Basic Farming Combination

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Mid to Late Game Farming Combination

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Advanced Late Game Farming Combination

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Ultimate Combination Initiated By Command Attack

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Surprise Ultimate Combination

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Standard Jungling Skill Order

Your Ball. Your Scout. Your Lifesaver.

Command: Dissonance

Mid Outer Towerspace
Mid Inner Towerspace
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Top Outer Towerspace

Top Inner Towerspace
Bot Outer Towerspace
Check for Impending Gank when moving toward Bot Inner Towerspace
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I can not stress enough just how important scouting is to ensure your safety! Remember, Wards save lives. Your Ball however saves your life while simultaneously ending your enemy's!
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Runes

Runes
Greater Mark of Magic Penetration 9	Greater Seal of Scaling Mana Regeneration 9	Greater Glyph of Magic Resist 9	Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed 3

• Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: As an AP Caster you require Magic Penetration so that the spells you do land do the maximum amount of damage possible
  
  
• Greater Seal of Scaling Mana Regeneration: Mana Regen is extremely important considering if you don't have any mana you are pretty much useless... Don't be THAT Guy....
  
  
• Greater Glyph of Magic Resist: I have found that the early magic resist is extremely useful against pretty much every opponent you will face mid. You can use Flat or Scaling AP, but I believe that these runes really help you out the most to keep you in lane and keep your incoming damage down.
  
  
• Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed: Early ability power is nowhere near as useful as being able to dodge skill shots and the ability to consistently outrun an Annie that is hunting you down with Tibbers-stun... I have been using these quints for awhile now and they really make a difference.
  

Masteries

Masteries

1/1

4/4

2/2

4/4

1/1

3/3

1/1

4/4

1/1

1/1

3/3

1/1

3/3

1/1

• Ability Power and Attack Damage by 5 when Ignite is on cooldown
• Attack Damage to minions by 4 for even easier last hitting
• Bonus late game damage on your Auto Attacks
• Magic Penetration by 8%
• Cooldown Reduction by 4%
• Bonus Ability Power (+ 18 AP @ Level 18, 6 flat AP and a 5% overall AP increase)

• Mana Regeneration by 3 per 5 seconds
• Recall time so that you can escape quicker from sticky situations
• Decreasing Summoner Spell Cooldowns by 10%
• Neutral Monster Buff Duration by 20%
• Flash by reducing its cooldown by 15 seconds

Summoner Spells

This spell can be extremely useful in finishing off that last bit of health your opponent might have. Sometimes a Flash/ Ignite combo is just what the doctor ordered in order to secure an enemy fleeing in terror from your ball and the wrath that comes with it. The true damage and decreased healing that it offers makes it a perfect counter to champions with built in sustain such as Vladimir or Ahri.

This is hands down the best summoner spell in the game. Need to initiate? Flash in. Need to retreat quickly? Flash out. Need to jump over a wall so that you can get to a team fight in a timely manner? Flash over it! Is a big scary Rammus ball speeding in your direction? Flash out of the way at the last second and then Command: Dissonance away so that he just has no chance of wrecking your day.

I am not one of those people that will tell you to not use Clarity because it is a bad spell. It is not a bad spell and it can be extremely useful. I believe however that my two builds for use in ranked games have enough mana regeneration in order to make it a less than optimal choice. If you have trouble conserving your mana then go ahead, feel free to take Clarity instead of Ignite. Others might call you noob but who cares? You’re gonna destroy either way and in the end THAT is what matters.

Ghost has a 210 second cooldown. Command: Dissonance has a 6.5 second cooldown in my build... I'd do the math to support my theory but I have faith in your abilities as a functioning human being.

This spell belongs to the AD Carry... Preferably whomever was Solo Top. Not to mention that when used correctly Command: Dissonance does pretty much the same thing, but to every champion in The Ball's range instead of just one person on the team.

This is an extremely important spell to have in your team's arsenal so that it is possible to shut down a back door before it get's out of hand. This however should be in someone else's spell set. All the mobility you need is granted by the powerful combination of Boots of Mobility and Command: Dissonance.

I have never been a big fan of Cleanse because my preference is to play AP Casters and I tend to stay back far enough to not get CC'd to death. With proper map awareness you will never be taken by surprise by your enemies and because of this you will not really find a good use for it on Orianna.

Stealing Dragon and Baron

Command: Attack

Command: Shockwave

Command: Shockwave

Command: Dissonance

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Baron Steal Positioning

Full Game Replays

So, this is new for me but I decided to upload full games onto youtube and add a commentary to it so that you can see why I do what I do. These take a bit of time to film, commentate and upload to the site so as they become available I will add them to the guide. Feel free to subscribe to my youtube channel so that you know whenever I upload a new replay :)
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Ori Versus Veigar

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Here is where things get really detailed

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I am giving you all a heads up that from this point on my Guide will turn towards specific strategies that I employ as an Orianna Player. If you are serious about playing Orianna well, then I suggest you continue reading but if you are just trying her out for a free week then you should practice what has been spoken of already in this guide and then come back later.

Recommended Game Settings

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Not long ago I was helping out one of my readers in a 1v1 and told him to switch a few settings in his interface and key bindings and he absolutely loved it. It then hit me that there are tons of you out there that are reading this guide, but still not being as good as you could be because you might not be using some of these settings.

I'm going to post the settings I use in game so that you can choose whether or not to use them yourself, although I HIGHLY recommend that you do because you will see an instant increase in your performance.

Note: These settings will take a game or two to get used to and I suggest you play a few bot games until you are comfortable with them.

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By making these changes you will see an almost immediate improvement in your performance as Orianna. Ever have trouble casting Command: Protect on yourself in a clutch moment? Now all you have to do is push E and your ball will come rushing towards you without a single click. Note that if you want to cast your shield on another champion you only have to hover your mouse over that champion and then push E. This technique will save you valuable time and will get you those kills or escapes that you otherwise would have missed due to you being late since you were having to click. I promise you that once you get used to this you with NEVER want to go back to the default settings.

Item Choices and Reasoning Behind Them

Orianna

• +15 Magic Penetration for cutting through the other teams magic resist items such as a Negatron Cloak or a Athene's Unholy Grail
• When coupled with Liandry's Torment and your runes you have a total of 38 flat magic penetration

• This Item is essentially a permanent, though slightly modified, blue buff that comes with Magic Resistance and Ability Power
• + 40 Magic resistance which can really come in handy against all of the various mages
• +60 Ability Power (78 after the Deathcap Bonus)
• 20% Cooldown Reduction
• 15 Mana Regen/5 + 1% Regen for every 1% mana you are missing. Quick math. You have 1000 max mana but are down to 200. With this build you have about 40 Mana Regen/5 + (40*80%) which brings you to 72 Mana Regen/5
• No need to worry about being so Out Of Mana after a kill that you won’t be able to run from your enemies because Athene’s gives you 12% of your max mana back to you as a bonus for getting a kill or assist

• +50 Ability Power (65 after Deathcap Bonus)
• With the removal of the restrictions on multi-target spells this item is perfect for Ori since she can hit everyone on the opposing team, often, with various spells :)

• A staple item for every AP Caster
• + 120 Ability Power (156 after Deathcap Bonus)
• Adds an additional 30% of your base Ability Power on top of the original 120 AP

• As a Late Game Item this is one of the best survivabilty purchases you can make as a Caster
• +120 Ability Power (150 after the Deathcap Bonus)
• +50 armor to help you deal with those pesky AD Carries on the other team...
• An Active that can literally save your life! If you get focused all you have to do is pop this Active while everyone on the opposing team wastes their high damage abilities trying to kill you so that you can come back while all of their abilities are on CD and rape face.

• Grants 70 Ability Power (91 after the Deathcap Bonus)
• 35% Magic Penetration plus the 8% from your Arcane Knowledge mastery and the Flat 8 Magic Pen from your Runes bring you up to about 50% total Magic Penetration *Roughly depending on their build*
• If you are getting stacked against then it is only fair that you return the favor

The extra cooldown reduction allows you to consistently apply pressure to opposing champions. The item helps to make Orianna take the role of being a sustained damge dealer. Now, although this item is extremely powerful, it is much more effective when playing against a team that is stacking HP items. It is also extremely effective against champions that flat out rely on healing such as Vladimir, Warwick or Dr. Mundo. Even in these situations I would only suggest purchasing this item if that particular champion is just wrecking your team's day and is obviously carrying their entire team themselves.

Grants a total of 80 Ability Power to your champion (104 after Deathcap bonus) and places an aura on nearby allies granting them 30 Ability Power each. If you have an AP heavy team or someone building with a hybrid build you will find that they will greatly appreciate this. On top of the AP the 20% Spell Vamp keeps you in lane and in team fights for a much longer amount of time than you would otherwise be able to. Late game, a single Command: Attack and Command: Dissonance combo can heal you for over 300 HP. Over time this really stacks up and allows you to get in and get dirty in order to secure those kills. This item mixed with Athene's Unholy Grail gives you an amazing amount of sustain throughout the game

For an extremely indepth look at will of the ancients click here

Many of my readers question me about my choice of Will of the Ancients over Rod of Ages and state that since all of Orianna's spells are multi target you are actually only getting 1/3 of the spell vamp and because of this it make more sense to get a Catalyst the Protector over the Hextech Revolver. One of my readers did some math and showed me that Ori would have to do about 7,000 damage with her spells in order to regen the same amount of health that you would get from a single level gain if you had a Catalyst the Protector. His math was correct, so I decided to do some of my own to see if it was more beneficial to take the catalyst over the revolver. Who says I don't listen?

My findings were interesting, and very much in my favor :)
Warning... The following section contains math, lol

All of the following calculations for damage and experience were done on the assumption that I am level 11, have 120 AP and it is 16 minutes into the game. The reason why I chose 16 minutes is because that is the time that my reader was using for the amount of gold spent thus far in an average game.

To get from level 11 to level 12 you need 1380 experience:

• You get 144 XP from the siege minion once every 3 waves or every minute and a half
• You get 52 XP for each caster minion which is a total of 156 XP per wave
• You get 96 XP for each melee which is a total of 288 XP per wave

Assuming your first minion wave contains a Siege minion:

• Your first minion wave grants 588 XP
• The second minion wave grants 444 XP and brings you to a total 1032 XP
• The third minion wave grants you another 444 XP and brings you to a total of 1476 XP

You only needed 1380 XP so congrats! You just leveled up! Catalyst the Protector has now awarded you 250 HP. Please note that it took 3 minion waves in order to receive the 250 HP Regen.

Now for the HP Regen math:

At level 11 Command: Attack and Command: Dissonance are both level 4:

• Assuming you hit an entire Siege minion wave, Command: Attack does 292 damage to the first target and 117 to the last target. With 7 targets command attack does a total of 1547 damage. Note that the 10% decrease in damage per unit hit is calculated in that figure
• Command: Dissonance is able to hit 4 targets at once, excluding the champion, in a single wave. 265 * 4 = 1060

To a Siege Minion Wave I would do a total of 2607 damage that could receive spell vamp.

For a standard minion wave:

• Command: Attack would do total 1430 damage to 6 total targets
• Command: Dissonance would do a total of 795 damage to 3 total targets

To a Standard Minion Wave I would do a total of 2225 damage that could receive spell vamp.

The equation for calculating the Spell Vamp is:

(Siege minion wave Damage)(spellvamp) / 3 = Siege Wave HP regen

(2607)(.12) / 3 = 104.28 HP Regen

(Standard minion wave Damage)((spellvamp) / 3)(2) waves = Total HP regen over two standard waves
(2225)((.12) / 3)(2) = 178 HP Regen

The equation for total spell vamp for 3 minion waves is:

(Siege Minion Wave HP Regen) + (Standard Minion Wave HP regen)(2) = Total HP Regen. Please note, in math you always do the multiplication first so the above is in fact written correctly.

178 + 104 = 282

With 3 Q W Combos at this fairly low level and very low ability power I can get 282 HP from spell vamp. That by itself is 32 HP more than what you will get in the same amount of time if you were waiting on Catalyst the Protector's passive. If you then take into account that you are constantly moving your ball around and doing damage, this ends up granting you MUCH more HP than you would have gotten from having a Catalyst the Protector. This is accentuated further once you upgrade your Hextech Revolver to a Will of the Ancients and have a good amount of AP which will allow you to hit even harder and get even more health back.

If you want to bring mana into the discussion then I have an answer for that too.


Athene's Unholy Grail
Need I say more?

To sum it all up, with minimal usage of Orianna's spells you actually get a little bit more HP Regen from Hextech Revolver than you get in the same amount of time waiting for Catalyst the Protector. However, if you've ever played Ori before, you know for a fact that you will NEVER use her spells so sparsely and will end up getting much more HP than you would have gotten with the catalyst.

On top of that, Catalyst the Protector and subsequently Rod of Ages will only continue to give you HP and Mana Regen until you are level 18. Then all you have is a larger Health and Mana pool and no way to fill them back up. By purchasing Athene's Unholy Grail as well as Hextech Revolver and subsequently Will of the Ancients you end up giving yourself MUCH more Health and Mana regen throughout the entire game instead of having mediocre HP and Mana regen that stops when you hit level 18.

The active on the item can be extremely powerful against tankier teams and can help give your team and advantage that would have otherwise been missing. If the enemy team is mostly squishy then you should be focusing those champions and ignoring the tank which unfortunately makes this item less useful. It is still extremely viable and should be used if you find yourself needing to take on the assassin role and single out priority targets.

The effect range on this item is only 600 and because of that it won’t really do anything at all to most champions that you will come across mid. The exceptions to the above comment are assassin champions such as Diana, Akali and Kassadin because, due to their blinks and melee range, you have no way of keeping them outside of that 600 range. The builds you should use against those champions are located in the champion matchup section below :)

Has an extremely useful and clutch active that drains 25% of your remaining mana and converts it into a shield. As stated earlier this shield when combined with Command: Protect will combine to negate 1047 damage. Another option is also to stagger your Command: Protect with the shield for Seraph's embrace. For example you can cast protect on yourself, wait 4 seconds, activate Seraph's Embrace during the CD for protect and then as soon as it is off of CD you can cast Command: Protect again. This item can be very powerful but the amount of time it takes for it to really become useful is more than you can afford as Orianna.

If there is a lot, and I mean A LOT of AP on the other team then it might be better for you to pick up this item instead of a Void Staff or Guardian Angel; Especially if there is a Karthus on the other team that has a much higher amount of Ability Power than me I might consider this item in order to counter his Requiem however I feel that the Zhonya's Hourglass is just as capable of blocking this ultimate and is more dependable since you can decide exactly when to use its Active.

This item is simply too expensive and takes too long to mature in order for it to really work with Orianna. This is punctuated further by the fact that Athene's Unholy Grail is a core item on Orianna and with it as well was Rod of Ages you just have overkill on early mana regen. Granted it would be nice to have more health, I still find that the health I get from Liandry's Torment to be more than enough to keep me alive in most situations.

These boots give you the ability to be anywhere on the map in a maximum of 20-25 seconds. This means that you can constantly jump between lanes in order to gank, save your teammates and stop backdoors. On Orianna when paired with Command: Dissonance you get a great burst of speed that makes you almost impossible to chase down. It should be noted that Command: Dissonance does not remove the Enhanced Movement 5 buff unless it damages an enemy or neutral monster

Normally I only feel the need to switch to Mercury's Treads in extreme late game when getting around the map is no longer an issue because all three lanes are pushed to the inhibitors; Even then I will normally only make the switch if the opposing team has a very large amount of Crowd Control and are suddenly able to shut me down while I am confined to their base, otherwise I am more likely to switch to Sorcerer's Shoes

This is an item that I feel season 3 killed… I used to love it due to the fact that it did Attack Damage and worked really well in bringing down turrets. Throughout my testing of the season 3 items this one just no longer made the cut. The reasoning behind this choice essentially boils down to everything that made it cool has been nerfed. These points include an overall damage from proc’d attacks and the movement speed bonus. Toss out the magic resist that once came with this item and it is even less appealing as a late game item now…

Normally don't want this for the same reasons that I wouldn't want to buy a Rod of Ages… Since Orianna's Command: Attack is a multi-target spell the slow awarded by Rylai's is only 15% for 1.5 seconds while Command: Dissonance comes with a 40% slow and lasts for 2 seconds... This is much better in my opinion and is also perfectly capable of doubling the amount of damage you do with Liandry's Torment

Enchantments

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So, for season 3 we have these cool little enchantments that we can add to our choice of boots in order to help us in various ways. Some people have been confused as to when each enchantment should be used so I figured I'd do a little breakdown for you guys to clear up any confusion you might have.

I'll list them in order of most useful to least useful but you should note that each game is different and each opposing team comp might require something different from you.
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Captainlllll Captainlllll

With this enchantment you have the potential to increase the speed of every other member on your team by 8%. This might not seem like a big deal but I assure you that, when chasing a fleeing champion or running away from a bad situation, this enchantment has the great ability to save lives. It should be noted though that the enchantment's range is roughly 1100 which is the same as your cast range on Command: Protect. With that in mind you can run up to an ally that is fleeing, cast Command: Protect on them and then kite them to safety so that you don't actually have to get near any danger.

lllCaptain lllCaptain

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Distortionlll Distortionlll

This one is pretty self explanatory. Having a 25% reduction on the cast time on your Flash can be extremely useful. Flash has a 285 second cool down because of the Summoner's Insight mastery. By taking this enchantment you knock that cooldown to 214 seconds. This is particularly useful if there is a Jarvan IV or Morgana on the opposing team since both of their ultimates pretty much require that your Flash is up and ready to go in order to escape certain death...

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Alacritylll Alacritylll

I would like to point out that I in no way believe that movement speed isn't important; on the contrary I think that movement speed is critical in this game. So why don't I rate this enchantment higher than I do? Simple really, the two options listed above simply offer more to you or your teammates. Sure, the +15 movement speed is great, and if you have someone else on your team running the Captain then having the Alacrity enchantment will make that even better, but you can't always rely on your teammates to think about things like this and the +15 movement speed by itself is kind of lack luster. Not saying it isn't good, just saying other enchantments help more.

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Homeguardlll Homeguardlll

Wait a minute... Homeguard is bad? NO!!! Homeguard is not bad at all! In fact I think it is very good. What is bad? Being in a situation to where you are at your base enough to actually utilize this enchantment! I'm not saying you are going to win all of your games, but I'm not going to suggest highly that you buy the Homeguard enchantment unless you are, in fact, guarding your home. If you do however find yourself on the defensive then this purchase and seriously help you to be all over your base in order to keep any of the lanes from getting pushed to your nexus.

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Furorllll Furorllll

And here we have it... my least recommended enchantment purchase for Orianna... Furor, although amazing on AD carries and on single target casters such as Elise or Ryze, it does absolutely nothing on Orianna unless she auto attacks the enemy. The fact is, late game you won't be auto attacking nearly as much as you are early game and since you will never get the Furor bonus from any of your spells, this is literally a waste of gold on Orianna. Again, amazing on other champs, should never be purchased with this one...

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Well, that about sums that up. Remember that before you ever buy an enchantment you should be fairly far along in your build. More AP will pretty much always be more helpful in dealing with the enemy than one of these enchantments but that doesn't mean that you should avoid them; it means that you should take a look at how the game is going, whether you find yourself saving your teammates often, whether your base is under attack, or whether you really need to have your Flash available as much as possible. After you have taken these things into account then the choice for what enchantment you should buy will become abundantly clear.

Orianna's Role on the Team and during Teamfights

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As Orianna you should be the AP Carry Mid

In this position you are capable of assisting both top and bottom lanes as well as keeping a lookout for you jungler in case he gets caught while roaming between lanes.

Orianna

Command: Attack

Command: Attack

Command: Shockwave

Orianna

Command: Protect

Command: Shockwave

Command: Dissonance

Command: Attack

How to Initiate a Teamfight

Always be on the lookout for champions that use channeled ultimates such as Katarina's Death Lotus or Nunu's Absolute Zero because Orianna's Command: Shockwave will interrupt their ultimate and save your team from a lot of damage! Properly spotting these opportunities and executing Command: Shockwave will make your opponents curse you and your teammates love you.

Command: Protect

Command: Protect

Command: Dissonance

Early Game

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Your role during the first 10 to 15 minutes of the game is simple; Farm! Last hitting minions is the most important thing you can you do for your team. Other than NOT DYING... you should really strive to not die... Write that down .

Here are a couple notes about your Abilities and your early game:

Command: Attack

• Once you raise it to level 2 (Level 1 is just a waste of mana)
• To safely last hit caster minions while staying out of range of the opposing champion
• For those last hits that you just can't time correctly due to minion intervention or because you are out of Auto Attack range

Feel free to Command: Attack the opposing champion but NEVER sacrifice a last hit for a poke. In the end it just isn't worth it. Remember, 15 Minion Kills is Equivalent to 1 Champion Kill!

Command: Dissonance

• Once you raise it to level 2 (The damage output for level 1 is just sad...)
• To last hit multiple minions that are about to die and cause you to lose CS
• For light harassing. Do not do a Command: Attack- Command: Dissonance combo for every poke. Make Command: Dissonance count!
• To quickly remove yourself from ganks. A Command: Protect- Command: Dissonance combo can get you out of many sticky situations.

Boots of Speed

Brand

Swain

Command: Attack

Command: Dissonance

Command: Protect

Clockwork Windup

• The enemy jungler is dead and all other champions are accounted for
• Your opposing mid is dead
• Your opposing mid has gone back to buy and you want to make him lose out on a wave’s worth of CS and XP
• Your team plans on taking dragon and you want the pushed minions to be a distraction
• You need to go back or plan on ganking one of your other lanes

to learn more about zoning and lane control take a look at these videos!

I apologize if you find her voice annoying but the important thing that you should be taking note of is her message. Remember that Orianna has amazing zoning capabilities due to the movement and leash range of Orianna’s ball. This fact is accentuated further when you consider the vision granted in brush.

Shurelia’s Zoning Tutorial

This next video is a great breakdown of how important the mid lane is to a team. I don’t agree with every point that is made but I do agree about the general concepts and ideas that are brought up.

Mid lane guide with Roaming + Farming continuum

Lastly this is a video about Wave Manipulation. The video was geared towards top players but this concept and ability is extremely important to mid lane because there are 6-7 different entrances that enemy junglers can use in order to initiate a gank and the more of those that you leave closed the better off you will be overall.


Minion Tanking, Wave Manipulations and Zoning

Mid Game

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Mid game is where Orianna really starts to shine.

Liandry's Torment

Will of the Ancients

Rabadon's Deathcap

End Game

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Late Game is where Orianna becomes the key to winning teamfights and ultimately the game.

Orianna

Will of the Ancients

Zhonya's Hourglass

Void Staff

Command: Shockwave

Command: Dissonance

Sorcerer's Shoes

Command: Protect

Guardian Angel

Sunfire Cape

Warmog's Armor

Runic Bulwark

Champion Matchup

Here are couple notes so that you fully understand the information that is being presented. I will be adding more and more champions to this section but I wanted to go ahead and get a large chunk of them out now. All of these are notes on how I play Orianna against the various champions. Some of the statements are specific to a certain build and some of them are just general guidelines. “Difficulty” is in relation specifically to the laning phase of the game and does not include end game or the rest of the team’s composition. The build that I have listed is the build I suggest using for countering that specific champion. This does not mean that it is necessarily the correct build for your game though because there are 5 people on the opposing team and it is unlikely that you only need to counter 1 of them. It should be noted that most of the builds suggested are or are variations of My Primary Build because, although The Punisher Build is a lot of fun, I feel that the first build is more suitable for ranked play. For requests on specific champions feel free to PM me and I will work on getting those champions added to the guide. Enjoy!

For In-depth Information to use when facing Ahri Click Here

When friends of mine ask me how Orianna does when going head to head with Ahri I always have a little trouble explaining it. Ahri’s Orb of Deception and Charm both have a larger range than Command: Attack and can therefore be extremely dangerous. Ahri actually can’t do much damage to you if you can consistently dodge Charm and you make her choose between trying to hit you with Orb of Deception or using it to farm minions.


Ahri’s passive Essence Theft grants her 35% spell vamp on basically every 3rd spell. Once Ahri buys her Hextech Revolver she will get 12% spell vamp for using any of her spells and will receive 47% spell vamp when her passive is proced. Because this grants Ahri so much sustain in lane it is important for you to decide whether you want to burst her down quickly, or pick up your own sustain. In this case I think it might be better for you to rush a Rabadon's Deathcap and continually poke her so that she is using her spells simply to regain her own health, not to actually cause damage to you. Afterwards you should feel free to go back and build your Will of the Ancients.

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Tips:

• One of the best ways to counter Ahri is by keeping the ball out and about. Ahri is an extremely linear champion so the player is constantly trying to make straight lines in order to cause damage. You can use this to your advantage because Ahri will completely forget about your ball location and you should be able to side swipe her fairly easily and land a few good Q,W Combos. You also want to be sure to position yourself so that in her attemps to hit you with Orb of Deception she actually won’t be hitting all of your minions. Do NOT stand at the back of your caster wave in order to dodge her attacks. Doing this will make it so that she can hit every single minion with a single Orb of Deception and the fact that you dodged it isn’t really a big deal. You should try to be between and to the side of your two minion waves so that minions are still between you and Ahri so she can’t hit you with Charm but so that if she tries to hit you with Orb of Deception she only hits 2 or 3 minions.
• After Ahri has reached level 6 she is quite difficult to kill since Spirit Rush is similar to having 3 flashes, plus she likely has Flash as well. If you can arrange for your jungler to show up, make Ahri burn her flash, and then come back 20 seconds later so that she burns her Spirit Rush then you don’t have to worry about Ahri trying to dive you at your turret. Remember that if Ahri has blue buff then Spirit Rush only has about a 90 second cool down so you need to act quickly and cause as much damage as possible in order to get the kill. Also, try not to use your ultimate on her unless you know that her Spirit Rush and Flash are down so that you can cause some serious damage.
• Remember that once Ahri is out of mana, she is out of spell vamp, and this is when you are going to be able to get your kills with a well-placed Ultimate combination.
• Fox-Fire is deceivingly dangerous. If you see her activate this ability and notice the 3 blue fire balls surrounding her you need to keep your distance so that you don't get hit by any of the fires. Consistently doing this will make this spell cast a waste of mana that will become very frustrating to your opponent.
• The most important thing you can do is to avoid getting hit with Charm. Allowing Ahri to hit you with this skill shot is just giving her free damage… mid to late game a single Charm can and will spell defeat for your team if you aren’t careful. If you have a Garen, Talon, Soraka or Lulu on your team then you should convey to them that they need to save their silences for Ahri so that you, as a team, can shut her down and make her useless to her team.

For In-depth Information to use when facing Akali Click Here

Note that this is one of the few times that I believe it to be okay to get Abyssal Scepter on Orianna. Overall the item does not do well on her but the fact is that if you are playing against a champion like Akali that can constantly get in your face then it is definitely both the best defensive and offensive choice you can make. You will be slightly starved for mana early on because you should rush your Negatron Cloak first, but once you start getting blue buffs you shouldn't have any issues.

When playing against an Akali you need to be extremely aggressive before she hits level 6. Her ability to escape is minimal and her damage output isn’t that high. Remember that Akali, although very fast, is still a melee champion and has to be right in your face to do much damage. You however are Orianna and your Ball is just as blood thirsty as you are. If you constantly harass her with your auto attacks and your ball whenever she is in range you will deny her precious farm. I find myself pushing Akali all the way to her tower so that her tower will help me to deny her the CS. Of course I don’t stick around though since that would leave me open to a gank and that just isn’t very smart. The only time that I will continue to push at the turret though is if I see all of the other members of her team somewhere on the map.

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Tips:

• Once Akali has her ultimate, Shadow Dance, you have to be a bit more wary because the dash range on Shadow Dance is 800. Use your Q,W to farm but otherwise just stay back and stay safe. If you are slightly pushed to your side of the lane, be sure to stand just inside of turret range so that if she does dash to you she will take a turret hit.
• If I have blue buff and Akali uses Twilight Shroud I will quickly spam my Q,W combo where she disappeared so as to do a decent amount of damage to her even though she is stealthed.
• Vision Wards can secure kills for you. If you have an aggressive jungler then Akali will simply throw down her Twilight Shroud and run away. While Akali is pushed to her turret you should place a Vision Ward in the middle of your lane and she won’t know what hit her. Akali players get cocky because they think they can just stand in their shroud and escape all danger. Because of this it will take them a second to realize that the hits you are landing on them aren’t just lucky guesses, you are flat out targeting her. This is an excellent advantage that you MUST take advantage of. If you can get one kill off of her because you bought the Vision Ward then it paid for itself and also granted you an extra 150 gold and by denying Akali any last hits and experience she would have gained had she not died it has helped you even more.

For In-depth Information to use when facing Anivia Click Here

Anivia is a difficult champion to play as, but if you are good with her then you can really mess up your enemy. The best way to counter an Anivia is simply by knowing how she works so that you can deny her damage and have her waste her mana. Anivia is also one of the few other champions that starts at a base Movement Speed of 300 which means that you two are starting on equal fighting grounds as far as that goes. Another important thing to take note of is understanding Anivia’s passive Rebirth and respecting the fact that in early game you will not be able to kill her AND her egg simply because you do not do enough damage.
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One important thing to remember is that Anivia has to farm... a lot! Because of that you should focus on forcing her out of lane by ganking other lanes as often as possible. This might not seem like a big deal but the fact is Anivia will be able to farm well if you are there or not. The only way to keep her from getting the farm is making it so that her team is QQing at her for not being enough of a threat to keep you in lane. Arrange ganks both top and bottom and force the Anivia player out of their comfortable farming zone and you should come out on top.

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Tips:

• “Chilled” is a status that is similar to Brand’s Blaze. While you are chilled you move 20% slower and are open to an attack from Frostbite that will cause double the normal damage. Note that the “chilled” effect lasts for 3 seconds after Flash Frost has passed through you or 2 seconds after the stun from it has worn off *considering you aren’t wearing mercury’s treads* Anivia’s ultimate, Glacial Storm will also apply the “chilled” effect which makes it even more dangerous to stand inside. Do yourself a favor and just STAY AWAY from Anivia while you are chilled. Trust me, it is much better than watching yourself continually die…
• Anivia’s primary goal before she gets to level 6 is to hit you with her Flash Frost but not because of the damage it does, but because if she hits you with it and is able to stun you with it, she can then follow up with an easy Frostbite and cause some serious damage for only half of the mana cost. After she gets to level 6 her goal of getting you “chilled” is much easier for her to accomplish because she can simply use Glacial Storm to immediately “chill” you and wreck your day.
• Experienced Anivia players will not open with Glacial Storm but will instead cast Frostbite and while the projectile is in motion will cast Glacial Storm where you stand so that you are unable avoid it or get out of range. This is a deadly combination when you consider that if she throws up a Crystallize wall then you might be stuck in her ultimate longer than you expected which will make it easier for Anivia to stun you with Flash Frost and then hit you again with Frostbite since it only has a 5 second cooldown. Moral of the story? Keep some distance between you and Anivia or you will pay the price for it!!!
• Rebirth has a 4 minute cooldown. KEEP TRACK OF THIS. If you are able to get her down to egg then that means you have 4 minutes where you only have to kill her once in order for her to die. To do this you simply have to pay attention. When Anivia turns into the egg, take note of the time *8:44*, add 4 minutes to that, and type in the chat log, “Egg 12:44.” In these next 4 minutes try to arrange a gank with multiple team members, preferable the ones that do damage the quickest. If you can get a full team gank then that is great because as soon as you have taken care of Anivia you can go down and get your team a free dragon.
• Rebirth doesn’t reset if Anivia dies again. Remember that no matter what she will not go into egg form again until she has reached the 4 minute mark *12:44 in the earlier scenario*
• Anivia is extremely Blue Buff dependent. Deny her blue, and you can deny her and her team the game. Blue roughly comes up for the second time at 7:10 if their jungler started at blue buff. This being the case, buy wards on your first trip back to the shop and do your best to ward THEIR Blue Buff at around the 5:45 mark in the game. This will give you vision on their Blue Buff for 3 minutes and will greatly increase the likely hood of being able to steal it. Using Command: Shockwave followed by Command: Dissonance to steal is completely acceptable and encouraged since at those early levels you are not doing as much damage as you will late game and it is 100% worth it to deny Anivia that Blue Buff. However after stealing the buff you should GTFO because they are gonna get pissed and might call in the cavalry to try to take it back from you, lol

For In-depth Information to use when facing Annie Click Here

This B*tch… Okay, Annie is one of THE most dangerous champions to lane against simply because of how often she has her stun up. If your jungler isn’t paying attention and ganks her when she has Summon: Tibbers as well as her stun available then his day is about to get wrecked, period. Another thing that is annoying about Annie is that she is encouraged to build up her stun as often as possible because if she uses Disintegrate and it is the last hit on a minion, it doesn’t cost her any mana. What does this mean? Farming is extremely easy, requires no mana, and rewards her with a stun once every 4 spells…

A talented Annie will play mind games with you and try to shove you out of your lane. But before she is level 6 you have a bit of an advantage on her because Disintegrate only has a range of 625 which means you are able to poke quite easily with Command: Attack since it has a range of 825. After she gets to level 6, that slow playing sadistic little pyromaniac is going to whip out her full arsenal and just wreck your day. Stun up+ Flash+ Summon: Tibbers+ Ignite+ Disintegrate+ Incinerate= just about dead… if you stick around and try to fight she will have another Disintegrate ready which pretty much does = dead…

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Tips:

• Speed, that’s what you need to hard counter this little devil. Be sure to use movement quints, reallocate your masteries so that you have 3 points in Swiftness and then rush Boots of Mobility before you even get your Chalice of Harmony. I’m not joking here. If Annie is faster than you then she will hit you with every stun she has and you will get owned during the laning phase which will make her extremely dangerous to your entire team.
• Have your jungler come by with full intention of only making her waste her Flash. Annie becomes much easier to handle when the aforementioned combo *shudders* is not available to her…. Be sure to tell him to do it while she does not have her stun up so that she can’t go all Rambo on him and ruin his day. Discussing tactics like this right at the start of the game is extremely useful.
• Frostfire Annie’s stun indicator is almost impossible to see while Molten Shield is active. If you are playing against Frostfire Annie then she probably knows this and plans to use this to her advantage. Be sure to click on her whenever she is in lane so that you have another visual representation as to when her stun is up.
• When Annie’s stun becomes available she giggles this really sick giggle that means she’s about to pwn some noobs. Make sure you are not one of those noobs. As a visual representation she also get's this little cloud around her waist to give you a head's up that the stun is ready to wreck your day. Stay out of range and last hit using your ball ONLY. If she is level 6 or higher and you know that her Flash is available then you need to stay back even further than your Command: Attack range which is 825 while Summon: Tibbers + Flash = 850 range. Be extremely careful!
• If Annie only buys Sorcerer's Shoes and there is another person on her team that has a lot of crowd control then I would suggest that you get Mercury's Treads instead of Boots of Mobility

If you have been lucky enough to not experience the full wrath of Annie then you are one of the lucky ones… Here is a video from the League of Legends Cypher series by LilyPichu that pretty accurately describes why I hate Annie so much…

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For In-depth Information to use when facing Brand Click Here

Brand is an opponent that will always keep you on your feet. For some reason a lot of people feel that Brand is a counter for Orianna but for the life of me I can’t figure out why. Pillar of Flame and Sear both have a larger range than Command: Attack but considering they are both skill shots that can be avoided it really isn’t that much of an advantage. As long as you keep your distance from Brand around the same as your Command: Attack range he is unlikely to hit you with either his Conflagration or Pyroclasm.

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Tips:

• All of Brand’s spells proc you with Blaze and do some ticking damage after the initial hit. You can tell that you are ablaze by the icon above your head and your screen flashing red annoyingly. When you are ablaze Brand is going to try to hit you with Sear because if he does, you are stunned for 2 seconds. If you are ablaze you should move so that there are minions between yourself and Brand so as to avoid Sear. If there are no minions and you are running away from Brand then do not run in a straight line away from him. Being stunned for 2 seconds is much worse than Brand being close enough to auto attack you because you made a beeline so as to avoid the skill shot.
• Conflagration is not a skill shot and only requires that you be in range of Brand or near a minion that has been ablaze in order for it to damage you and then also set you ablaze. What does this mean? If he just missed you with Pillar of Flame but he managed to hit some of the minions then you need to put a little distance between yourself and those minions because Conflagration will bounce slightly and does have the capability of damaging you and opening you up to getting stunned becaue you are ablaze.
• DO NOT LET YOUR JUNGLER GANK IF YOU ARE LOW ON HEALTH AND BRAND IS LEVEL 6 OR HIGHER!!!! Pyroclasm is a fairly lack luster ultimate in my opinion because it doesn’t really do too much to only one champion unless there are some minions in the very near vicinity. Pyroclasm however becomes deadly when there are two champions in lane because it starts bouncing between two champions and damaging them for each hit. When bouncing between two champions, at early levels this ultimate has the potential of causing 570 damage, and at late levels it has the potential of causing 2100 damage. The only time that you should accept a gank from your jungler after level 6 is if you are at full health and there is no fear of dying. Be sure to tell your jungler “Not enough HP, he will ult and use you to kill me.” They will likely respect your wishes and go to another lane or their jungle, or they will try to solo Brand so that you are kept out of danger.
• Movement Quints are very useful against Brand to help you avoid all of his spells. Be sure to listen because each of his spells have a very audible indicator which will give you just enough time to react and not be hit.

For In-depth Information to use when facing Cassiopeia Click Here

When laning against a Cassiopeia, speed is your greatest ally. If she can’t hit you with her Noxious Blast then she isn’t able to do much other than waste her mana trying. If she IS able to hit you with her Noxious Blast then she has one of two options depending on how passively she feels like playing: She can slowly widdle you down to about half health and then use her Twin Fang when you she finds you out of position or a jungler is able to land a snare/stun/slow on you and just completely wreck your face. Be sure to poke when you can and change directions often. NEVER stand in the same place for any measurable amount of time. You should be moving between each and every auto attack!
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One note I feel I should mention is that I believe Orianna versus Cassiopeia to be a skill matchup. I happen to main both of these champions and whenever I am playing in solo queue and I see an Ori on the other team, I counterpick with Cass and vice versa. Both champions can be very strong against each other and success is completely dependent on how well you know the OTHER champion. This is where player skill and champion knowledge are more important than usual.

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Tips:

• Rush Boots of Mobility after you get your Chalice of Harmony. As I stated, I feel this matchup to be a skill matchup and because both of you rely on landing skillshots having that extra base 20 movement speed is a godsend. Having these boots also makes it easy to gank other lanes or take the longer, but safer, routes through the jungle in order to avoid getting caught by the river bush hitting you with Petrifying Gaze... On that note, even if you are going through your jungle you should always check the bushes with your ball before you run into them.
• Equip movement speed quints and place points in the Swiftness mastery! Orianna’s base movement speed is only 300 so you move pretty slowly. Cassiopeia actually gets a movement speed buff if she hits you with her Noxious Blast which means if you are hit then she can close in on you that much quicker… If you start out with Boots of Speed then you are only moving at 350. Boots of Speed and movement quints: 367. Boots of Speed+movement quints+ Swiftness =373 movement speed to start your laning phase.
• If you get hit with Noxious Blast then you need to back away from the fight! That CS you missed wasn’t worth the possible damage you could have taken if Cassiopeia would have gotten off 1 or 2 Twin Fang on you.
• If Cassiopeia casts Miasma in your area while she is in turret range you should step into the affected area for the briefest of moments so that you take a bit of damage. Miasma doesn’t cause nearly as much damage as Noxious Blast and is therefore much saver when it comes to the amount of damage taken. Doing so will shift turret agro to Cassiopeia and will help you shave off a decent chunk of HP. Be sure to still stay out of her Twin Fang range while you are poisoned though since those still really hurt…
• Always Always Always check the brush with your ball first if you think she might be waiting for you to come back to lane. If you went down to bot and did a gank and then start heading back to your lane but don’t see Cassio farming, you need walk back to your lane through your jungle. Cassio has a technique called “Snake in the Grass” that is very deadly and will rip you apart. If you’d like to read up how it works you can do so here just before the “Late Game” section.

For In-depth Information to use when facing Evelynn Click Here

So the trick to laning against an Evelynn is speed and experience; let me explain: If Eve can’t get the drop on you then that makes things much more difficult for her in lane. In order to make sure she can’t get the drop on you you have to go about leveling your spells differently and you have to be experienced enough to know exactly how much damage you can take versus how much damage you can deal.

Normally I tell you to evenly level up Command: Attack and Command: Dissonance so that you have a decent amount of damage while not completely draining your mana pool. When playing against Evelynn it is important that you level Command: Attack as fast as possible because repositioning the ball as soon as possible is the most important capability you need because you might only get a brief glimpse of Eve before she’s on top of you. If Command: Attack is only level 1 or 2, and you move the ball, you have quite a bit of time before you can move it again and that is enough time for Eve to get in, really mess you up, and get back out. Having Command: Attack on as low a cooldown as possible seriously helps in discouraging a very large amount of damage throughout the game.

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Tips:

• Vision Wards ARE A MUST!! No excuses! If you and everyone else on your team are keeping Vision Wards up around the map then you pretty much shut down Evelynn’s gank potential. This is amazingly important because if she can’t get kills in lane and she can’t get kills from roaming then she will end up extremely under leveled and will not be a threat to anyone.
• If you are on the verge of starting a team fight and don’t see Evelynn DON’T START THE TEAM FIGHT! I can’t stress that point enough. I hate it when we get to end game and the initiator on my team doesn’t take this into account and just goes all in. Everyone on our team gets to about half HP and we kill two people on their team and then all of a sudden “A Wild Eve Appears” and we are all dead in seconds. The only time you should dive a tower or start a risky team fight when there is an Evelynn on the other team is when she is dead! Otherwise you just need to take your time and poke down the towers and don’t do anything stupid. Falling into the trap of diving at their turret is the easiest way to completely throw the game.
• Eve has amazing burst damage and will get up close and personal. If there is a second AP champ on their team and you find that you are being focused by Evelynn then I would suggest that you purchase an Abyssal Scepter instead of Will of the Ancients so that when she does get in your face she will do less damage overall which will allow you more time to take her out.
• Don’t forget that Agony's Embrace grants Eve a shield… if she has her ultimate up and you are neck and neck in a 1v1 fight she will likely ult you and will end up with anywhere from 150 to 300 more HP than you originally calculated. Be sure to factor this into your decision as to whether or not to continue and try to win a 1v1 against her. Also be sure to keep the ball on you all the time so that you have as much magic resistance as possible. Does that mean you should never use Command: Attack? No. It means you should cast Command: Attack in such a way that it does damage and you can immediately pick it back up. One of the perks to Evelynn being a melee champ is that this is extremely easy to accomplish :)
• Evelynn should pretty much always be the primary focus in team fights. Make it known to your team that as soon as she is visible everyone needs to shift focus to her and shut her down as quickly as possible.

For In-depth Information to use when facing Fiddlesticks Click Here

Guess who is one of the easiest champions to play against? That’s right, Fiddlesticks is the correct answer! The reason this is the case is because Fiddlesticks is a one trick pony that otherwise isn’t very dangerous. Crowstorm CAN take you by surprise and do a lot of damage to you if you aren’t prepared for it or are out of position. Other than that though, if you stick to using your ball to do all of the damage to him and never get close enough for you to Auto Attack you will NEVER be in danger.

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• Did you know that if you are fast enough you can use your ultimate to completely cancel Crowstorm? It's true. There is a brief amount of time that you might notice Fiddle start to channel his ultimate, before he blinks and you hear all the crows attacking, that you can completely negate the ultimate. Pulling this off is doubly as good because his ultimate will still go on cooldown and he wasn't able to do ANY damage with it.
• In order to make sure that you take little to no damage from Dark Wind you should just stay away from your minions until after Fiddlesticks has used it. The cooldown on Dark Wind is pretty high starting at 15 seconds and therefore gives you a lot of time to harass with your ball without any fear of being silenced.
• If Fiddlesticks starts channeling his Drain on a minion you can feel free to close the distance and move into auto attack range so that you can stack your Clockwork Windup and severely punish him with your ball with a Q,W,E combo so that you end up with the shield and magic resist on yourself for if he decides to break the channel and attack you with Dark Wind. After you do this the first time he will be sure to stick back and only use Drain on your melee minions… fortunately you have excellent range on your Command: Attack and you can still harass him with a Q,W combo without having to put yourself out of position and in danger of a jungler gank.
• So you think to yourself, “ Fiddlesticks was only around 30% HP when I saw him leave lane… chances are he just recalled so that he can come back and ult me while he’s at full health.” WRONG!!! WRONGWRONGWRONGWRONGWRONG!!! THIS is that one trick that I am talking about. Fiddlesticks players will happily just wait in the brush for you to get into a position so that they can Crowstorm, Dark Wind, Terrify and Drain you which will quickly end your life. I don’t care how confident you are running around with 60% HP, if you hit level 6 and Fiddlesticks disappears then you need to go back to base, buy your items and buy 2, that’s right, 2 wards. Ward top and bot sides of mid lane when you get back because I assure you that the next time you see Fiddlesticks it will be him channeling his ultimate and getting ready to rape your face.
• If your Fiddlesticks is smart he will take teleport, make sure that you see him recall, and then port to one of his own wards about 10 seconds later with intent to completely surprise you and just destroy you. Always keep your wards up and when you have killed Fiddlesticks you need to take out that tower as soon as possible.
• Maokai, Xin Zhao, Nocturne, Alistar, Pantheon, Volibear and Rammus are all extremely dangerous junglers when teamed up with Fiddlesticks because they all have either a fear, stun, snare, knockup or taunt that will make it very easy for Fiddlesticks to use his own combinations on you to secure a kill. Pay special attention to jungler position on the map if any of these champions and jungling for their team and consider purchasing extra wards to avoid getting caught out of position.

For In-depth Information to use when facing Fizz Click Here

Fizz is a hard hitting, high mobility, pain in the A** that will walk all over you if you let him. Your initial thoughts when dealing with a champion that is so offensive is likely to stay back and take the least amount of damage possible. That strategy is in fact the exact opposite tactic you should be using. With Fizz if you let him take ownership of the lane then he will farm as much as he likes and gank other lanes often, all because you were too worried about taking a hit. Instead you need to stay in Fizz’s face and make him pay for each and every last hit he goes for. Be overly offensive with your auto attacks and use your ball to poke at Fizz every single time he runs forward to hit a minion. Be sure to push all the way to the tower and then go sit back at your tower so as to avoid getting ganked.

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• Because you have to keep your lane pushed it is dangerous to stay with your minions all the time. It might be worth it to talk with your jungler and arranging for him to let you have his Wraiths. It is better though that you not farm Wraiths unless you have Blue Buff so that you don't lose too much mana or health while getting the extra farm.
• When Fizz procs his Seastone Trident then he is planning on coming in on you for a hit. He is likely going to try to use Urchin Strike in order to close the gap in order to hit you with it. When you see his trident light up you know that he has activated Seastone Trident and that you should harass with your ball in order to keep him at bay for the remaining 5 seconds of the Seastone Trident spell. If he does attack you with Seastone Trident then I suggest that you wait to use your health potions until you see the grievous wounds icon disappear from over your head. Also makes sure to make him pay for getting a hit on you by continually auto attacking and harassing with your ball.
• Playful / Trickster will waste Command: Shockwave if the Fizz you are playing against is any good. For the sake of training we will assume that you are playing against and experienced Fizz. DO NOT use Command: Shockwave unless he has used Playful / Trickster in the last 10 seconds otherwise you stand to lose the very powerful amount of fear that your ultimate can afford you.
• After you have pushed your minions to his turret you should travel to the other lanes and gank whenever possible. By doing this you give the upper hand to all of your other lanes and get yourself some kills or assists.
• Chum the Waters slows you by 50% at level 1 at which time your Command: Dissonance will be at level 2 and has the potential to reduce that 50% slow down to 25%. This 25% can save yours or someone else’s life while they are carrying the fish. Late game Chum the Waters slows by 70% and Command: Dissonance will speed you up by 40% bringing it only to a 30% slow. Be sure to try to help out your entire team by giving them a chance to escape by giving them a nice E,W combo
• Remember that against Fizz the best defense it an almost reckless early game offense

For In-depth Information to use when facing Heimerdinger Click Here

Heimerdinger is a pretty annoying opponent mid… There are two different type of Heimer players that you will come across. One is extremely offensive and the other is extremely passive. The offensive play style will keep you near your turret for almost the entire laning phase while the passive play style will put you out of position and at risk for jungler ganks. If you are playing against a passive Heimerdinger then you need to be ganking the other lanes as much as possible so that you can give the rest of your team an edge. If you are playing against an offensive Heimerdinger then you need to stay in your lane and focus on taking out his H-28G Evolution Turrets since they are Heimerdinger’s best source of last hitting and gold. Because of his turrets you will likely get pushed back to your turret pretty quickly. In order to help you take out his H-28G Evolution Turret as quickly as possible while they are within your turret range you should draw their fire so that your turret will target them as soon as possible.

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• In early game farming you should only focus on taking out the H-28G Evolution Turrets when you aren’t last hitting. Caster minions are worth 5 more gold than his turrets are are therefore a higher priority.
• Hextech Micro-Rockets will seek out the closest 3 targets to Heimerdinger. In other words, make sure you are never closer than 3 of your minions to Heimerdinger.
• CH-1 Concussion Grenade is probably one of the easiest skill shots to see coming. You’ll get hit by it once or twice if you haven’t versed a Heimerdinger in a while, but after that you should be able to see it coming from a mile away. Just walk out of its path and you will avoid getting blinded or stunned.
• The Heimerdinger in the available replay was a mix between passive and offensive so you kind of get to see how to play against both options although this was before I started ganking more. If I can get an updated replay then I will post it for you guys.
• UPGRADE!!! is an easy ultimate to counter: simply Command: Protect and then Command: Dissonance away. DO NOT fight Heimerdinger while you are taking his UPGRADE!!! turret’s agro because you WILL DIE.

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This is another one of those times when speed can be your greatest ally. If you continually harass Karthus with your ball then he will want to return the favor trying to hit you with his Lay Waste. The best part about this though is that if you position yourself correctly then he won’t be hitting you, and he won’t be hitting his minions. This is extra good because Defile’s passive makes it so that each time Karthus kills a unit he gets some of his mana restored. So by consistently dodging Lay Waste you make kathus waste mana, not farm, and therefore not get his mana replaced. The best part about this is that the entire time you are going through this process you are just continually poking at Karthus with your Ball and causing some serious damage.

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• I suggest, in most cases, purchasing your Zhonya's Hourglass right after purchasing your Hextech Revolver. If you are playing particularly well and don't quite need the sustain then feel free to get if right after you finish your Athene's Unholy Grail. By doing this you are in essence making yourself immune to his ultimate due to the fact that Requiem at level 3 and 40% CDR will bring the cooldown to 96 seconds and Zhonya's Hourglass's passive only has a 90 second cooldown :D
• The cast range on Wall of Pain is 1000 and is therefore greater than the range of your Command: Attack. Good news for you though, most Karthus players only put a single point into Wall of Pain and level it up last. This means that it only causes a 40% slow which is reduced down to 15% when you use your level 2 Command: Dissonance which you should have when you reach level 5. This 15% slow is merely an inconvenience and if you are using movement quints, Swiftness and start with Boots of Speed then you shouldn’t have any trouble getting away from Karthus since he will have a small gap to close in order to be able to cast Lay Waste ahead of you in order for it to actually hit.
• Be sure to cast Command: Protect on yourself just before Requiem strikes so that you can reduce the damage done to you by simultaneously increasing your magic resistance and giving yourself a shield. If you have plenty of health then you might want to considering shielding an ally that is in a less than optimal position as far as HP goes… as you level up and reach your end game your shield will absorb over 500 damage and grant the recipient of the shield 30 magic resist, which is equivalent to about a 22% reduction in damage. The math on this is pretty cool. Requiem based on Karthus having 550 AP is as follows; 550 base damage + 330 *.6 of AP* = 880 damage. 20% reduction from 880 is 704. Subtract from that the damage absorbed by your shield 704 - 522 = 182 total damage caused by Requiem. In a way, you are a single target counter to Requiem. Once you have your Zhonya's Hourglass you are a dual target counter because you won’t be in danger of taking the hit yourself either.

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Note that this is one of the few times that I believe it to be okay to get Abyssal Scepter on Orianna. Overall the item does not do well on her but the fact is that if you are playing against a melee caster champion like Kassadin that can constantly get in your face then it is definitely both the best defensive and offensive choice you can make. You will be slightly starved for mana early on because you should rush your Negatron Cloak first, but once you start getting blue buffs you shouldn't have any issues.

That being said... My initial instinct is to ban Kassadin in champion select. This isn't because I have issues with him, but because most of the rest of the team will during mid/late game. However if you are playing normals then here is what you do. Before he is level 6, harass the hell out of him. Let him run towards you to cast Null Sphere but then back up and hit him with your Command: Attack. Be sure to Auto Attack him whenever he gets in your range because Clockwork Windup as well as your q and w will really weaken him. Don't forget that Null Sphere has a 9 second CD, same as your Command: Dissonance which means you have quite a bit of time to do a good amount of damage before he has another projectile and if you were able to get off your Q,W combo before he silenced you, then you can give him one more before he can silence you a second time. Chances are you can get a kill on him around level 4 or 5, which then gives you a 1 to 2 level advantage on him once he gets back to lane.

Once he is level 6 you have to switch up your strategy. Stay back a bit farther so that if he Riftwalks to you he might get hit by the turret or you can Command: Shockwave him into the turret. Also, remember that his ultimate isn't what silences you, it is his Null Sphere which any good kass will cast right after jumping to you with Riftwalk. This means that you have time to cast a single spell. As soon as you hear his ult you should immediately cast Command: Protect on yourself *I changed the hotkey’s so that the middle mouse click is "Smart/Self Cast Spell 3" so that I have a one click shield for these opportunities* and then start auto attacking him. As soon as you can you then Q, W, while continually auto attacking him. If you can, getting blue right around when he gets to 6 is extremely useful because of the 20% CDR that is awarded. It can make the difference in a kill or a miss. By now, since you have been farming, and likely have a kill, you should be able to buy your Hextech Revolver which will grant you some sustain so that you can survive a bit longer.

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• Feel Free to buy some magic resist against this guy. Kassadin packs quite a punch and can destroy you if you don’t build to counter him. Mercury's Treads work very well against Kassadin because they reduce his damage output and reduce the length of his silence by 35%
• Force Pulse can only be used after you have cast 6 spells in the general vicinity of Kassadin. If you click on him you can actually see the number of stacks that he has going towards his Force Pulse and you can make the conscious decision to either grant him stacks or not. Also, while he is at 5 or 6 stacks you want to be extremely wary because a single Command: Protect will allow him to use his Force Pulse and cause some serious damage. If he only has 4 stacks and attacks you, ONLY use Command: Protect and then hit him with as many auto attacks as possible. Clockwork Windup will do an excellent amount of damage to him and will seriously make him reconsider jumping to you again. As he is running away and you are no longer in his Force Pulse range you can then, and only then, attack him with a Q,W combination
• Don’t forget that Null Sphere is not a skill shot which means you can’t dodge it. Just let it happen and don’t panic! Be sure to Auto Attack as much as you can during your silence so that Clockwork Windup will stack and do the maximum damage possible

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Katarina: The Sinister Blade… what can I say about good old Kat. Well, as you might have read previously, champions that have a good gap closer are generally more difficult for Orianna to handle. Akali, LeBlanc, Wukong, dianna and Kassadin all make this list.

So why doesn’t Katarina make that list? The reasons are vast, but the main two that come to mind is that Katarina is a melee champion with only a single projectile move, Bouncing Blades that actually safely causes damage, and the other is that you are one of a few champions that is pretty much immune to her ultimate, Death Lotus. “What… what? How are you immune to her ultimate? Kat kills me with her ultimate all the time?!?” It is simple really, Death Lotus is a channeled attack, and Command: Shockwave disrupts all channeled attacks, lol. Every time I get “counter picked” by a Katarina I instantly relax a bit because I know that I am just going to dominate the lane.

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• Stay on top of your MIAS! You are going to do everything in your power to not feed the Kat, make sure that includes keeping your teammates from feeding her as well!
• Plan ganks with your jungler that start just as the new minion wave is entering the middle of the lane. By doing this she won’t have any minions around her tower to Shunpo to and hide under the safety of the tower’s crushing blows…
• If Katarina uses Shunpo and jumps kind of close to you or to you, be sure to use your auto attacks as well as a Q,W combo to punish her for doing so. You vastly out damage her in these exchanges due to your high mobility and your Clockwork Windup and she is likely to stay back from then on out
• I suggest putting a second point into Command: Protect around level 7 so that you have slightly higher resistances as well as base shield so that you can better defend in case she does decide to go all Rambo on you because of her new flashy ultimate, which isn’t too much of a concern for you
• Bouncing Blades can and will bounce towards you and do damage if you are near the minions that Katarina uses it on. This being the case, step away from your minions to begin with so that her initial Bouncing Blades doesn’t hit you, and then later when she is ready to do it again to finish off some of the CS simply cast a Command: Protect on yourself and you aren’t likely to actually take any damage
• As I said in the earlier section, if you ever, and I mean EVER see Katarina using Death Lotus your immediate response should be to use your ultimate on her. If you do this successfully you will likely save your entire team’s life and help to win that team fight, and later the game
• If Katarina tower dives you and you use your ultimate to stop hers, it is likely that you will get an easy kill because kat is still pretty squishy and can’t stand up to towers very well :)

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As far as laning goes Kennen actually isn’t that difficult to lane against. The range and low mana cost of Command: Attack allows you to poke often and hard. Kennen is most dangerous mid to late game in team fights which is why he might be worth a ban. If you are in charge of banning then I suggest that you ask your team if they would like a Kennen ban since he shouldn’t be a problem for you in lane.

The only issue that you will run into is lane sustain. I would suggest rushing a Rabadon's Deathcap so that you can do as much damage as possible so as to keep Kennen out of lane as much as possible. A different form of lane sustain that Kennen has is that he uses energy instead of mana, there is no reason for him to go back to base other than to heal or to buy. His use of energy also grants blue buff to his jungler for almost as much as he wants. Because of this there are certain junglers that you really have to be wary of. Shaco, Maokai, Xin Zhao, Sejuani and Nocturne are all much more dangerous when they know that they can have blue buff as much as they want.

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• Ever notice that blue throwing star and just wonder to yourself “Wtf is that?” For those of you that don’t know, this blue throwing star is the passive of Electrical Surge and can cause you a lot of damage. The easiest way to counter this is by clicking on Kennen so that his stat card shows up on your screen so that you can count the stacks. This is exactly like playing against Annie and is no less important. Many players don’t take into account that Kennen is able to place a Mark of the Storm with just an auto attack and can cause you to get stunned multiple times without Kennen having to land a single skill shot.
• Mark of the Storm stays on you for 8 seconds from the time that you received your most recent mark. If you have one mark, be careful. If you have two marks then you need to gtfo. Remember what I said earlier, Electrical Surge’s passive is can put that third mark on you which will stun you. At this point Kennen can simply use Slicing Maelstrom and get an easy second stun off on you. Combine this with their jungler coming in for a gank and you are done for. Mark of the Storm should be your primary concern, period.
• Thundering Shuriken will hit the first target in its path. Stay behind your minions and you will pretty much never have an issue with getting hit by this spell. I actually suggest that you play a few games as Kennen so that you can learn the actual range of Thundering Shuriken since the animation that you see in game is nowhere near a accurate measure.
• You can and SHOULD hit Kennen with Command: Attack while he is using his Lightning Rush and is doing a sweep of your minions. Most people seem to forget that Kennen can take damage while he is running around as that little electrical ball. Attacking him during this time serves two purposes: One, you do damge to your enemy, DUH! Two, because you suddenly went on the offensive Kennen is likely to turn around and not hit you with Lightning Rush which will save you not from 1, but two Mark of the Storm stacks because immediately after using Lightning Rush he is likely to use the active for Electrical Surge in order to get you with a second mark. As you can see, not running in fear will help you far more than trying to out run a MUCH faster opponent.