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.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several vital Orianna versus Volibear matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Volibear’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Volibear. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Orianna often has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Volibear. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Orianna usually fairs equally well when playing against Volibear, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Orianna makes an ok counter to Volibear.
While Orianna does have a lower win rate compared to Volibear, when on opposite teams, Orianna also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Orianna into Volibearas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Orianna also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Volibear. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Volibear matchups, Volibear is the better champion with a similar 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 to Volibear. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Orianna against Volibear.
To truly master Orianna to counter Volibear during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Volibear. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Orianna versus Volibear build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Volibear than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 49.4% battling Volibear with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Volibear 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 sets that we analyzed for Orianna vs Volibear counters, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Volibear as Orianna are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.