[2.4] Orianna Guide - In-Depth Hypercarry 5v1 Orianna

Once you step inside that game, you're playing the strongest champion with absolutely no counter whatsoever. You can carry games like crazy and bring games back from oblivion if behind. Most of the strategies are expained above so below you'll find a few general tips.

First off, you should understand the bully mentality. Your AAs are very powerful early on, and you must keep poking the enemy. You can't burst anyone yet, but the mid lane is all about psychology and tiring your opponent. That being said, always consider the range difference, and abuse it when possible.

Once you get Rabadon's Deathcap , abuse your power spike and look for engagements as you can easily win any battle.

If you are behind, keep farming towards your power spikes as they can turn the tide of the game.

Always use Command: Attack for vision into bushes.

Force your teammates out of your lane mid-game and avoid ARAM. If you have a power spike you can handle 5 people in your lane as long as you combo the minions and keep your distance from being CC chained.

Keep AAing to proc your Conqueror. Keep looking for opportunities to proc Electrocute when available.

Use Command: Attack to zone out enemies, keep your Ball moving after you buy Rod of Ages , especially if the wat to get out of their turret in mid lane. This way enemies are always scared of your Command: Dissonance burst.

Spam your abilities from the base or while travelling after you purchase Tear of the Goddess to stack it faster.

if you're being chased, remember to have the ball on you after every combo if you can. The Ball gives you additional scaling defences, (up to 25 AR/MR at max level which mean an average decrease in damage taken of 12-14%.)

You can opt for an early level 2 Command: Attack , as it gives a lot more damage. As a rule of thumb, always get Command: Protect for melee match-ups or if you're gonna get ganked early.

Skill Order (both unlocking and upgrading):
3 > 1 > 2. Put a point in your ultimate whenever possible

Playstyle:

• Always keep the ball on your allies to offer them resistance stats while staying back. You are an enchanting support after all, and your playstyle should be similar to a Lulu or Sona . When you get your Harmonic Echo , make sure to spam shield whenever its passive is ready to heal allies. Your damage is quite low, but you can be very deceiving through the resistances you give to your teammates and bring an amazing deal of vision control through your ball.

You've probably been told to build Liandry's disregarding RoA, so why should you and when should you? Also keep in mind that this build revolves around RoA and if you choose to put Liandry's in you'll have to sustain better by yourself.

Why Liandry's Torment?

• Can fully stack with 2 abilities.
• At full stacks, the full build deals 6-8% more damage than the full RoA build.
• You also get a 1/2% HP burn over 3 seconds which makes recalling impossible.
• Better paired with Conqueror.

Why not Liandry's Torment?

• Fully stacking it is very slow unless it is a teamfight. 5 seconds is a lot.
• Abilities are usually burnt once you get full stacks or enemies will have disengaged.
• It gives less mana early on. Tear of the Goddess is a must asap.
• It was nerfed recently together with Conqueror, which makes RoA now a good alternative.

Why Rod of Ages?

• It gives 5-7% more damage than an unstacked Liandry's
• Gives 150 more HP, a 10-20 HP heal per ability cast, and infinite mana early on. Better for sustain.
• Better paired with Electrocute.

Why not Rod of Ages?

• Gives you a weak early game (unless you have Electrocute) and it makes you rely on power spikes.
• Doesn't do as much damage in drawn out fights.

Conclusion:

It doesn't really depend on the matchup, but more on your status. The RoA is better if you're solo queuing in Gold-Emerald as it skips teamfights and makes you more tanky allowing you to rely on yourself, while Liandry's is better Diamond+ where teammates are decent or with premades where teamfights are common and people don't ARAM mid-game. Still, don't forget that Electrocute helps you snowball and gain the advantage early-game when Orianna sucks more, and Conqueror helps throughout. Also don't forget that most people use Liandry's because it was OP on this build before it was nerfed together with Conqeuror, and most are hard-stuck using that build while options such as RoA are now viable and better in many cases.

This question goes in par with the previous one as they're both paired with 2 different items. I personally prefer Electrocute because I solo queue a lot and find it easier to get a lead that way.

Electrocute:

• Allows you to be a bully early on, dominating the lane.
• Makes early game easier if used correctly.
• Surprises enemies and makes all-ins available very early.
• Becomes a little irrelevant late-game.
• Doesn't contribute to the goal of the build, except from helping you get there.
• Irrelevant in teamfight and drawn fights.
• Hard to use properly.

Pair with Rod of Ages.

Conqueror:

• Contributes to your power giving you roughly +110AP when fully stacked at level 15.
• Very strong in teamfights.
• Easier to make use of it, but harder to use it better than Electrocute. (safe, but not better pick)
• Doesn't help early game.

Pair with Liandry's Torment or Rod of Ages.

See previous section for an explanation when to choose each. As a rule of thumb, get Electrocute + RoA on a melee matchup you feel confident in like Akali , Yasuo , or Zed in order to bully the opposing laner. Electrocute is always more viable and helps you snowball more, but you must know how to proc it constantly with Orianna. Unlike Electrocute, Conqueror is much easier and skill-friendly, but also weaker. Your progress path should look like this:

1. I use Conqueror because it's a safe pick. (until 50 games)
2. I use Electrocute because I can exploit it and snowball in order to hypercarry later on (50+ games)

Always take Electrocute when you're against Zed no matter what.

Don't forget that most people use Conqueror + Liandry's because they were OP before being nerfed and people haven't put much thought into new alternatives. Electrocute + RoA is absolutely more viable now.

(1-2-2021) Patch 2.1:

(Ult) Command: Shockwave

• Cooldown: 70/60/50s → 85/70/55s

This doesn't affect her as her Ultimate is yet another source of damage. This simply makes the Luden's Echo + Awakened Soulstealer not viable anymore.

(1-3-2021) Patch 2.1A:

LIANDRY’S TORMENT

• Ability power: 90 → 70
• Total cost: 3150g (unchanged)
• Combine cost: 800g → 950g

HAUNTING GUISE

• Ability power: 35 → 25
• Total cost: 1450g → 1300g
• Upgrade cost: 950g → 800g

This brings Liandry's build damage to a comparable level with RoA making them both viable.

(15-3-2021) Patch 2.1B:

CONQUEROR

• AP per stack: 4 to 12 (based on champ level) → 3 to 9 (based on champ level)
• Maximum stack Adaptive Damage bonus: 10% on ranged champions → 7% on ranged champions

This makes the Liandry's build underperform the RoA build by a lot unless Liandry's is fully stacked. Also makes Electrocute very viable.

(28-3-2021) Patch 2.2:

Base Stats

• Health: 570 → 530

Doesn't have a big effect as you take Ruby Crystal as a first item with this build anyways, and you're still a bully. it obviously hurts other builds that take another first item. Makes Sapphire Crystal less viable as a first item.

(1) Command: Attack

• Cooldown: 6/5/4/3s → 7.5/6/4.5/3s
• AP ratio: 0.5 → 0.4
• Base damage: 60/100/140/180 → 50/90/130/170

Hurts Conqueror and Electrocute procing in early game, but should not be a big deal. The AP ratio hurts the most, making early AP build much less viable. It makes Liandry's much less viable in early game. but more viable in late game.

(3) Command: Protect

• Base damage: 60/100/140/180 → 50/90/130/170

No real effect, shouldn't be used for damage anyways, and at the point you max this, its 0.4 AP ratio is way more than enough.

Overall, this nerf is another swing at the power of Orianna's bullying. But as this is a hypercarry build, it's not affected by it so much.

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