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.
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
The stats shown here emphasize several influential Orianna against Blitzcrank counter stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Blitzcrank’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Blitzcrank. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Orianna usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Blitzcrank. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Orianna usually loses when trying to fight Blitzcrank, with a 45.6% win rate. As a result, Orianna makes a poor counter to Blitzcrank.
While Orianna does have a much lower win rate than Blitzcrank, when they face off with one another, Orianna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Orianna into Blitzcrankas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Orianna also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Orianna is a garbage counter to Blitzcrank. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Orianna against Blitzcrank.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to counter Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna on average accumulates much more CS compared to Blitzcrank. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Orianna versus Blitzcrank build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Blitzcrank than with most other common item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when countering Blitzcrank with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Blitzcrank as Orianna, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Orianna vs Blitzcrank counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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