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.
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
The Orianna Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Orianna sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akali helps Orianna perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna plays on the same team as Akali, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Akali does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played together with Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Akali.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Akali on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Akali does a poor job of covering Orianna during teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Orianna that will always be her ideal teammate. However, Akali is a very bad companion for Orianna. By being on the same side as Orianna, she drops their win rate by -4.4% to 43.1%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Orianna and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Akali teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Orianna players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Orianna and Akali together, you will not be granting your side a lot of engage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order to pair well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Orianna and Akali synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Akali than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 43.1% when playing alongside Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Orianna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 43.1% win rate overall.
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