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.
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
The stats shown here feature several significant Orianna vs. Kai'Sa counter statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kai'Sa..
Orianna often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kai'Sa. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Orianna usually fairs equally well when taking on Kai'Sa, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Orianna makes an ok counter to Kai'Sa.
While Orianna does have a lower win rate compared to Kai'Sa, when they face off with one another, Orianna also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Orianna into Kai'Saas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Orianna also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Kai'Sa matchups, Kai'Sa is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Orianna is a somewhat poor counter for Kai'Sa. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Orianna against Kai'Sa.
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to counter Kai'Sa during both the laning 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 suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kai'Sa. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Orianna versus Kai'Sa build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Orianna bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Kai'Sa than with most other common item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when playing against Kai'Sa with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Kai'Sa as Orianna, you 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 players picked for Orianna vs Kai'Sa counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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