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.
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
The Orianna Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Swain helps Orianna perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna tries to synergize with Swain, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Swain doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played together with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Swain on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Swain does a decent job of covering Orianna in team fights.
There is no top synergy for Orianna that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Swain is a relatively poor ally for Orianna. By locking into the same side as Orianna, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 46.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Orianna and Swain that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Orianna. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Swain allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Orianna players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Orianna and Swain together, you may not be providing your team a lot of AD. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Orianna to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Orianna and Swain synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Swain than with most other common item sets. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 46.1% helping carry Swain with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability 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 sets players chose for Orianna and Swain pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.1% winrate overall.
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