Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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 Alistar 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, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Orianna. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Orianna helps Alistar perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is an ally to Orianna, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Orianna doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Orianna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Orianna.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Orianna on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Orianna does a decent job of covering Alistar during team fights.
There is no top synergy for Alistar that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Orianna is a not very good companion for Alistar. By locking into the same team as Alistar, she lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Alistar and Orianna that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Orianna has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Orianna allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Alistar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Alistar and Orianna together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Orianna ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to synergize with Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Alistar and Orianna synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Orianna than with most other common item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Orianna with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Alistar and Orianna pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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