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.
Pop Blossom's warning visuals are invisible if Neeko is disguised.
Standing behind minions against Neeko is very dangerous as Tangle-Barbs become stronger.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some influential Orianna versus Neeko matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Neeko’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Neeko..
Orianna usually has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Neeko. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Orianna usually loses when playing against Neeko, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Orianna makes a bad counter for Neeko.
While Orianna does have a lower win rate than Neeko, when facing one another, Orianna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Orianna into Neekoas her relative depth means 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 Neeko. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Neeko matchups, Neeko is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Orianna is a somewhat poor counter for Neeko. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Orianna against Neeko.
To truly master Orianna in order to counter Neeko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Neeko. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Orianna versus Neeko build include Seraph's Embrace, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Neeko than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Orianna had an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Neeko with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Neeko 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. Of all the rune builds players picked for Orianna vs Neeko battles, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.7% winrate overall.
If you would like to see Orianna vs Neeko tips and matchup stats and build suggestions for a a particular division, please choose one from the selection menu provided above. By default, the stats and build suggestions given are computed using every match played with both champs.