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.
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several vital Orianna versus Yasuo counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yasuo’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Yasuo. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Orianna normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Yasuo. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Orianna usually loses when trying to fight Yasuo, with a 47.3% win rate. Thus, Orianna makes a bad counter to Yasuo.
While Orianna does have a lower winrate compared to Yasuo, when they face off with one another, Orianna also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Orianna into Yasuoas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Orianna also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yasuo. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Orianna is a garbage counter to Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Orianna against Yasuo.
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to counter Yasuo 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 listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna most often gets a similar amount of CS as Yasuo. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, 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 case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Orianna versus Yasuo build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Orianna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Yasuo than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Orianna boasted an average winrate of 47.3% battling Yasuo with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Yasuo as Orianna, Orianna players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Orianna vs Yasuo counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.3% win rate overall.
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