Brand vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Brand
based on 3,214 Brand vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Orianna
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Brand in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several important Brand vs. Orianna counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Orianna..
Brand normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Orianna. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Orianna
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Who is Better, Brand or Orianna?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when taking on Orianna, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a great counter for Orianna.
While Brand does have a higher winrate than Orianna, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Orianna.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Orianna matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Brand is a great counter to Orianna. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Brand against Orianna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand in order to counter Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average gets less CS relative to Orianna. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Brand versus Orianna build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Orianna than with most other common builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 53.1% battling Orianna with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Orianna as Brand, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Brand vs Orianna counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.1% win rate overall.
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