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.
Ashe has very few defensive options, and she's a good target to gank.
Be wary of moving around the map alone if Ashe has not recently cast her Enchanted Crystal Arrow.
The stats provided here highlight several significant Orianna against Ashe matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ashe’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ashe..
Orianna usually has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Ashe. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Orianna usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ashe, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Orianna makes an ok counter for Ashe.
While Orianna does have a higher win rate than Ashe, when facing one another, Orianna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Orianna into Asheas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Orianna has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ashe. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Ashe matchups, Ashe is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Orianna is a decent counter to Ashe. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Orianna against Ashe.
To truly master Orianna in order to counter Ashe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Ashe. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Orianna versus Ashe build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Orianna bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Ashe than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 50.0% when playing against Ashe with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Ashe as Orianna, Orianna players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Orianna vs Ashe matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ashe as Orianna are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.