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How to Win Nilah vs Orianna Counter MatchupNilah is in the s tier of champions

Nilah vs Orianna

How to Beat Orianna as Nilah in LoLNilah is in the b tier of champions
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How to Beat Orianna as Nilah

based on 826 Nilah vs Orianna matchups
Win Rate
54 %
K/D/A
2.05
Pick Rate
1.4 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

At MOBA Champion, we evaluate millions of ranked League games every week. In our data, Nilah fought Orianna 826 times. Including so many matchups for Nilah vs Orianna gives us faith in our ability to produce useful data and a solid build to counter Orianna. This champion matchup is relatively rare. Nilah encounters Orianna in only 1.4% of their rounds.

Nilah vs Orianna Matchup Summary

Nilah has done a great job of beating Orianna. Typically, they wins a terrific 54.0% of matches the champions fight each other in. In Nilah against Orianna games, Nilah’s side is 0.1% more expected to earn first blood. This implies that they most likely will be able to get first blood against Orianna.

Best Nilah vs Orianna Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
PickaxeSerrated Dirk

Core Nilah Items

~22 Mins
Immortal ShieldbowNavori QuickbladesThe Collector

Optional Items

BloodthirsterLord Dominik's RegardsStormrazor

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerhaste summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Nilah to level upq
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Second ability for Nilah to level upe
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Last skill for Nilah to max outw

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: BloodlineLast Stand
DominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceArmor
Nilah's passive ability p
Nilah's q ability q
Nilah's w ability w
Nilah's e ability e
Nilah's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
Q
5
Q
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R
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Q
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Nilah

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.

Nilah vs Orianna Counter Stats

Nilah Image
Win Rate
54 %
VS
Win Rate
46 %
Orianna Image
7.6
< Kills >
5.2
6.5
< Deaths >
5.4
5.7
< Assists >
9.4
1.73
< Killing Sprees >
1.2
172
< Minions Killed >
166
0.19
< Dragons Killed >
0.07
0.51
< Inhibitors >
0.5
17,313
< Physical Damage >
1,007
169
< Magic Damage >
19,352
405
< True Damage >
333
17,887
< Damage Dealt >
20,692
24,005
< Damage Taken >
18,204
12,580
< Gold Earned >
11,021
2.61
< Towers >
2.1
0.05
< Baron Takedowns >
0.04
8,440
< Total Healing >
1,736
13,161
< Experience >
14,225
17
< Vision Score >
20
9
< Wards Placed >
10
86
< Time Dealing CC >
339

How to Counter Orianna with Nilah in LoL

The stat comparisons provided here show some important Nilah versus Orianna matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Orianna..

Nilah typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their foe does. Typically, they takes more damage than Orianna. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.

Differences between Nilah and Orianna

Damage Types Compared

Nilah
Orianna
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Nilah
Orianna

Who is Better, Nilah or Orianna?

Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nilah usually wins when playing against Orianna, with a 54.0% win rate. Thus, Nilah makes a great counter to Orianna.

While Nilah does have a much higher win rate than Orianna, when on opposite teams, Nilah also has a much greater learning curve that makes them a more time consuming character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nilah into Oriannaas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.

Moreover, Nilah also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.

While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Orianna matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.

Nilah is a great counter to Orianna. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nilah against Orianna.

Additional Information for Nilah Players

How We Calculated Our Nilah vs Orianna Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Orianna as Nilah, we analyzed 826 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Orianna as Nilah comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

If you would like to truly master Nilah to counter Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Nilah on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Orianna. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.

The ideal items to have in your Nilah versus Orianna build include Immortal Shieldbow, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Nilah used at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Orianna than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nilah boasted an average winrate of 54.0% when playing against Orianna with this build.

To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Orianna as Nilah, Nilah players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Nilah vs Orianna LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.0% winrate overall.

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