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.
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
The Orianna Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Heimerdinger helps Orianna perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna is an ally to Heimerdinger, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Heimerdinger doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played with Heimerdinger 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 Heimerdinger.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Orianna in team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Orianna that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Heimerdinger is a very typical teammate for Orianna. By locking into the same side as Orianna, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 46.6%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Orianna and Heimerdinger that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Orianna. That means Orianna players must be very careful when finding Heimerdinger teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Orianna and Heimerdinger together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Heimerdinger ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to work well with Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Orianna and Heimerdinger synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 46.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you 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 rune combinations that we analyzed for Orianna and Heimerdinger pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
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