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.
Chronobreak is a potent escape tool, but it can also be quite powerful when used offensively. Don't underestimate its damage potential.
If you can proc Z-Drive Resonance on an enemy champion, it's worth taking risks to do so. The bonus Move Speed makes it easy to escape.
Phase Dive's dash is a great tool for setting up Ekko's other abilities. Use it to get double hits with Timewinder or get into position to detonate Parallel Convergence.
The Orianna Ekko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ekko, 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 Ekko. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ekko helps Orianna perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna is paired with Ekko, she sees a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This may indicate that Ekko does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played together with Ekko on the same team, 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 Ekko.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Ekko on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Ekko does a poor job of covering Orianna during team fights.
There is no one best ally for Orianna that will no matter what be her top synergy. However, Ekko is a not very good companion for Orianna. By being on the same team as Orianna, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 46.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Orianna and Ekko that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Ekko has a greater difficulty than Orianna. That means Orianna players need to be cautious when arranging Ekko comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Orianna players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Orianna and Ekko together, you will not be granting your other allies very much engage potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Ekko ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to pair well with Ekko during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Orianna and Ekko synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Ekko than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Orianna had an average win rate of 46.1% when playing alongside Ekko with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you 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 that we analyzed for Orianna and Ekko pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Ekko with Orianna are displayed for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.