Orianna - She's a Nuke first, Support second.

[quote=JunSupport]Thought I'd link everyone to clarify Orianna's roles and capacities. [b][color=yellow]1. Orianna is THE strongest nuke in the game, if you exclude a well farmed Veigar.[/color][/b] [url=http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=805390&highlight=orianna+3252]At 500 AP late-game, a properly executed nuke in tandem with auto-attacks will deal 3252.8 damage.[/url] This isn't an easy thing to do late game, but it scales to mid game as well, she's still the strongest (next to Veigar vs an AP champion) when compared at 300 AP or 400 AP. To back up my claim, the LeagueTopTen first impressions video. Because I'm too lazy to do the math myself, I'll rely on the experiences of high ELO players. [youtube=UZh9sdHKqwQ] [b][color=yellow]2. Orianna is a Nuke Caster first. Her role is to do spike damage.[/color][/b] [url=http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=9468598#post9468598]Click here for the original post. The following is a quote from Xypherous, the designer of Orianna:[/url] [quote]In the meta, I'm uncertain. She was designed to be a primary magic damage dealer, with secondary support and tertiary sustained DPS characteristics. However, to support, you give up a large part of your control over who gets damaged, and if you sustain, you are within autoattack range and thus give up safety to get sustained magic damage.[/quote][/quote]

[quote=Skrallz]Hmmm She can play either :)[/quote]

[quote=JunSupport]@Skrallz: As any good gamer would say, play her however you want. But the fact of the matter is, her highest potential is as a hard AP caster.[/quote]

[quote=ShadowReign757]I can already see Chaotic going AP/AS Orianna. Things like Nashors, Malady, Rabadons, and then more AS with a little AP and HP.[/quote]

[quote=wRAthoFVuLK]Would you say Faro's build is good? I might try it :3[/quote]

[quote=caucheka]rageblade maybe, but nashors and malady don't give enough ap to really be more effective vs stacking ap.[/quote]

[quote=wRAthoFVuLK]He said rageblade bad[/quote]

[quote=JunSupport]@caucheka: So, the giant chunk of attack speed and borderline OP amount of CDR mean nothing?[/quote]

[quote=Lugignaf][quote=wRAthoFVuLK] He said rageblade bad [/quote] He was also using it in some of the clips. Nashor's too, even though he said it was bad as well.[/quote]

[quote=DocSmoothJew]Yeah, as Lugignaf said, he was using it in some of the clips and he was doing pretty well. I think he just wants to promote his build as better which is fine. It probably does come down to personal preference.[/quote]