If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
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 Master Yi 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, Master Yi sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Orianna. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Orianna helps Master Yi perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Master Yi tries to synergize with Orianna, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Orianna supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Master Yi is played with Orianna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Orianna.
Moreover, when Master Yi plays with Orianna on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Orianna does a decent job of covering Master Yi during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Master Yi that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, Orianna is a relatively poor ally for Master Yi. By being on the same team as Master Yi, she decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 48.8%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Master Yi and Orianna that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Master Yi. That means Master Yi players should be very careful when arranging Orianna allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, Master Yi players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Master Yi and Orianna together, you will not be giving your side very much support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Orianna ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Master Yi in order to pair well with Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Master Yi and Orianna synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Master Yi incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Orianna than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Master Yi boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when playing alongside Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Master Yi players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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