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.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Orianna Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Orianna perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna tries to synergize with Aphelios, she sees a little drop in her total damage output. This change may indicate that Aphelios does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played alongside Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Aphelios on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Orianna during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Orianna that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, Aphelios is a relatively poor ally for Orianna. By locking into the same team as Orianna, he decreases their win rate by -2.7% to 44.8%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Orianna and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Orianna. That means Orianna players need to be careful when finding Aphelios allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Orianna players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Orianna and Aphelios together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of engage potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Orianna to work well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Orianna and Aphelios synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with most other typical builds. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 44.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.8% winrate overall.
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