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.
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
The stats shown on this page highlight several strategic Orianna versus Syndra counter stats that can help us figure out the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Syndra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Syndra..
Orianna typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Syndra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Orianna usually loses when trying to fight Syndra, with a 47.1% win rate. Thus, Orianna makes a poor counter for Syndra.
While Orianna does have a lower winrate than Syndra, when facing one another, Orianna also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Orianna into Syndraas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Orianna has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Syndra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Syndra matchups, Syndra is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Orianna is a garbage counter to Syndra. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Orianna against Syndra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to counter Syndra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Syndra. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Orianna versus Syndra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Syndra than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Orianna had an average win rate of 47.1% when playing against Syndra with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Syndra as Orianna, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Orianna vs Syndra counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Syndra as Orianna are displayed for all skill levels, merged. To filter the stats and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.