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 the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
The Orianna Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kog'Maw helps Orianna perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna is an ally to Kog'Maw, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Kog'Maw supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played together with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kog'Maw. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Orianna in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Orianna that will no matter what be her top ally. However, overall, Kog'Maw is a very typical teammate for Orianna. By being on the same team as Orianna, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 47.2%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Orianna and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Kog'Maw teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, Orianna players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Orianna and Kog'Maw together, you may not be giving your team much engage potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kog'Maw ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order to pair well with Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Orianna and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 47.2% helping carry Kog'Maw with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Orianna players should use 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 sets players chose for Orianna and Kog'Maw pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.2% win rate overall.
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