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.
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
The Orianna Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Thresh helps Orianna perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna is an ally to Thresh, she observes a little increase in her full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Thresh supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played alongside Thresh 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 with Thresh.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Thresh on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Thresh does a decent job of covering Orianna during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Orianna that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, overall, Thresh is a below average ally for Orianna. By locking into the same side as Orianna, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 45.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Orianna and Thresh that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Thresh has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Thresh teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Orianna players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Orianna and Thresh together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Thresh ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order to synergize with Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Orianna and Thresh synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Thresh than with most other common item sets. In fact, Orianna had an average win rate of 45.7% when playing alongside Thresh with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.7% winrate overall.
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