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.
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
The Orianna Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kai'Sa helps Orianna perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna plays on the same team as Kai'Sa, she observes a little increase in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Kai'Sa helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played with Kai'Sa 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 Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Kai'Sa does a poor job of protecting Orianna during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Orianna that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, overall, Kai'Sa is a terrible ally for Orianna. By playing on the same team as Orianna, she drops their win rate by -4.2% to 43.3%. This proves that there is a terrible synergy between Orianna and Kai'Sa that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Kai'Sa allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Orianna and Kai'Sa together, you probably will not be granting your team enough crowd control. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kai'Sa ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to work well with Kai'Sa during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Orianna and Kai'Sa synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Orianna combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Kai'Sa than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Orianna boasted an average winrate of 43.3% when playing alongside Kai'Sa with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Orianna players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Orianna and Kai'Sa pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 43.3% winrate overall.
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