Katarina vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Katarina
based on 1,746 Katarina vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Orianna
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several critical Katarina vs. Orianna matchup stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Orianna. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Orianna. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Orianna
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Who is Better, Katarina or Orianna?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when trying to fight Orianna, with a 53.2% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a great counter to Orianna.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate compared to Orianna, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Katarina into Oriannaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Orianna matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Katarina is a great counter for Orianna. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Orianna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Orianna. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Katarina versus Orianna build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Orianna than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 53.2% when countering Orianna with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Orianna as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Katarina vs Orianna fights, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.2% win rate overall.
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