Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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 Aatrox Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Orianna. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Orianna helps Aatrox perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox is an ally to Orianna, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Orianna helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played alongside Orianna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Orianna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Orianna.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Orianna on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Orianna does a poor job of covering Aatrox in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Aatrox that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Orianna is a very bad ally for Aatrox. By locking into the same team as Aatrox, she decreases their win rate by -4.4% to 46.0%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Aatrox and Orianna that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Aatrox. That means Aatrox players should be very careful when enlisting Orianna allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Aatrox players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Aatrox and Orianna together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much engage potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox to pair well with Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Aatrox and Orianna synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Orianna than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average winrate of 46.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Aatrox players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.0% win rate overall.
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