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.
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
The Orianna Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Yorick helps Orianna perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna is paired with Yorick, she sees a little drop in her total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Yorick does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played with Yorick 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 alongside Yorick.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Yorick on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Yorick does a decent job of covering Orianna in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Orianna that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, Yorick is a decent teammate for Orianna. By locking into the same team as Orianna, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a somewhat important synergy between Orianna and Yorick that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Yorick teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Orianna players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Orianna and Yorick together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of crowd control. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Orianna in order to work well with Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Orianna and Yorick synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Yorick than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you 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 combinations players chose for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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