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.
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.
The Orianna Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Alistar helps Orianna perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna plays on the same team as Alistar, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Alistar provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played alongside Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Alistar on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of covering Orianna in team fights.
There is no top ally for Orianna that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, overall, Alistar is a very typical teammate for Orianna. By locking into the same team as Orianna, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 47.9%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Orianna and Alistar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Orianna players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Orianna and Alistar together, you may not be granting your side very much attack damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order to pair well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Orianna and Alistar synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Alistar than with most other common builds. In fact, Orianna had an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Alistar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Orianna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Orianna and Alistar pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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