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.
Unbreakable gives Braum extremely strong directional defense, either wait until it is down or outposition the ability.
Braum must land Winter's Bite or a basic attack to start Concussive Blows. If you get marked, exit combat range before getting hit 3 more times to avoid the stun.
Braum's ultimate has a long cast time, use that extra time to dodge. Walking over the frozen ground left behind will slow you, position so that you don't need to cross it.
The stats shown here highlight some vital Orianna vs. Braum matchup stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Braum’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Braum. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Orianna typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Braum. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Orianna usually loses when facing off against Braum, with a 44.0% win rate. Therefore, Orianna makes a bad counter to Braum.
While Orianna does have a much lower winrate than Braum, when they face off with one another, Orianna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Orianna into Braumas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Orianna has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Orianna is a terribly counter to Braum. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Orianna against Braum.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to counter Braum during both the laning 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 stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna most often accumulates much more CS as Braum. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Orianna versus Braum build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Braum than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Orianna boasted an average winrate of 44.0% when countering Braum with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Braum as Orianna, Orianna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Orianna vs Braum counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.0% winrate overall.
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