Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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 Lissandra Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Orianna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Orianna helps Lissandra perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lissandra is an ally to Orianna, she observes a moderate decrease in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Orianna doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played together with Orianna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Orianna.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Orianna on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Orianna does a poor job of covering Lissandra in teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Lissandra that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Orianna is a terrible companion for Lissandra. By locking into the same team as Lissandra, she drops their win rate by -6.2% to 43.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Lissandra and Orianna that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Lissandra. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Orianna allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Lissandra players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Lissandra and Orianna together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Lissandra in order to synergize with Orianna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Lissandra and Orianna synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Orianna than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 43.3% when playing alongside Orianna with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Orianna with Lissandra are shown for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.