Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
The stats provided here highlight some vital Orianna against Ahri matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences between this set of champions. Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ahri..
Orianna normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Ahri. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Orianna usually loses when playing against Ahri, with a 47.4% win rate. Therefore, Orianna makes a poor counter to Ahri.
While Orianna does have a lower winrate than Ahri, when they face off with one another, Orianna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Orianna into Ahrias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Orianna also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ahri. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Ahri matchups, Ahri is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Orianna is a terribly counter to Ahri. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Orianna against Ahri.
To truly master Orianna to counter Ahri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ahri. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Orianna versus Ahri build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Ahri than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 47.4% when countering Ahri with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Ahri as Orianna, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Orianna vs Ahri counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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