Orianna with Hecarim
How to Synergize Orianna and Hecarim
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Orianna Hecarim Synergy Summary
Best Orianna vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Orianna and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Orianna with Hecarim
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 Understand How Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Orianna Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Orianna in LoL
The Orianna Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Orianna sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Hecarim. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Hecarim helps Orianna perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna plays on the same team as Hecarim, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Hecarim does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played together with Hecarim on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Hecarim.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Hecarim on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Orianna in team fights.
Synergies between Orianna and Hecarim
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Is Orianna better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no ideal ally for Orianna that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, Hecarim is a very typical teammate for Orianna. By playing on the same team as Orianna, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 47.9%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Orianna and Hecarim that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Hecarim has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Hecarim comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Orianna players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Orianna and Hecarim together, you will not be granting your other teammates much support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Hecarim ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Orianna to work well with Hecarim during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Orianna and Hecarim synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Hecarim than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Hecarim with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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