Zed vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Zed
based on 1,734 Zed vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Orianna
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some vital Zed against Orianna matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Orianna’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Orianna. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Orianna. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Orianna
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Zed or Orianna?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually wins when playing against Orianna, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a good counter to Orianna.
While Zed does have a higher win rate than Orianna, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zed into Oriannaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Orianna matchups, Zed is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zed is a decent counter for Orianna. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Orianna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed 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 suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Orianna. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Zed versus Orianna build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Orianna than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 51.3% when playing against Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Orianna as Zed, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Zed vs Orianna counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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