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.
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
The Orianna Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Katarina helps Orianna perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna is paired with Katarina, she sees a pretty big loss in her complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Katarina does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Katarina on the same team, she typically receives much less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Orianna during teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Orianna that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, Katarina is a below average teammate for Orianna. By locking into the same side as Orianna, she lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 46.2%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Orianna and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Orianna. That means Orianna players must be very careful when arranging Katarina comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Orianna and Katarina together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina 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 pair well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Orianna and Katarina synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Orianna combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average win rate of 46.2% when playing alongside Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Orianna players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.2% winrate overall.
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