Orianna vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Orianna
based on 1,438 Orianna vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Irelia
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Orianna vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Orianna in LoL
The stats shown here feature several vital Orianna vs. Irelia matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Irelia. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Orianna usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Irelia. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Orianna and Irelia
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Who is Better, Orianna or Irelia?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Orianna usually loses when taking on Irelia, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Orianna makes a bad counter to Irelia.
While Orianna does have a lower win rate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Orianna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Orianna into Ireliaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Orianna has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Orianna is a somewhat poor counter to Irelia. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Orianna against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Orianna in order to counter Irelia during both the laning 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 stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Irelia. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Orianna versus Irelia build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Irelia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Orianna boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when playing against Irelia with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Irelia as Orianna, Orianna players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Orianna vs Irelia counters, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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