Bard vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Bard
based on 1,533 Bard vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Orianna
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Bard in LoL
The stats provided here feature some vital Bard versus Orianna matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences between this pair of champions. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Orianna’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Orianna. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Orianna. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Orianna
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Who is Better, Bard or Orianna?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Orianna, with a 55.0% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter for Orianna.
While Bard does have a much higher winrate compared to Orianna, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Oriannaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Orianna matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter for Orianna. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Orianna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Orianna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average gets a lot less CS as Orianna. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Bard versus Orianna build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Orianna than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 55.0% when countering Orianna with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Orianna as Bard, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Bard vs Orianna matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 55.0% winrate overall.
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