Alistar vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Alistar
based on 930 Alistar vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Orianna Counter Build
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Core Alistar Items
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Orianna
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Win Against Orianna
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
Alistar vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some important Alistar against Orianna counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Orianna..
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Orianna. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Orianna
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Who is Better, Alistar or Orianna?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when playing against Orianna, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes an ok counter for Orianna.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate than Orianna, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Oriannaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Orianna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Orianna matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Orianna. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Orianna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often gets a lot less CS as Orianna. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Orianna build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Orianna than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 50.4% when countering Orianna with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Orianna as Alistar, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Alistar vs Orianna matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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