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.
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
The Orianna Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Irelia helps Orianna perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna is paired with Irelia, she sees a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Irelia does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played together with Irelia 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 synergisticly with Irelia.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Irelia on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Irelia does a decent job of covering Orianna during team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Orianna that will always be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Irelia is a very typical companion for Orianna. By locking into the same team as Orianna, she lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 47.0%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Orianna and Irelia that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Irelia allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Orianna players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Orianna and Irelia together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Irelia ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to pair well with Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Orianna and Irelia synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Irelia than with many other typical builds. In fact, Orianna had an average win rate of 47.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Irelia with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance 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 rune combinations that we analyzed for Orianna and Irelia pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Irelia with Orianna are given for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.