Malphite vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Malphite
based on 1,975 Malphite vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malphite vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Malphite vs Orianna Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Malphite Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Malphite
Tips for Playing as Malphite against Orianna
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
Advice to Win Against Orianna
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
Malphite vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Malphite in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some significant Malphite vs. Orianna counter stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, showing that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Orianna..
Malphite usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Orianna. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malphite and Orianna
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Malphite or Orianna?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Malphite usually wins when playing against Orianna, with a 53.2% win rate. As a result, Malphite makes a great counter for Orianna.
While Malphite does have a higher winrate than Orianna, when facing one another, Malphite also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Malphite into Orianna.
Additionally, Malphite has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malphite vs Orianna matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Malphite is a great counter to Orianna. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Malphite against Orianna.
Other Champion Matchups Against Malphite
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How We Calculated Our Malphite vs Orianna Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to counter Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite most often gets a similar amount of CS as Orianna. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Malphite versus Orianna build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Orianna than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 53.2% when countering Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Orianna as Malphite, Malphite players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Malphite vs Orianna counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.2% winrate overall.
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