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.
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
The Orianna Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Pyke. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Pyke helps Orianna perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna is an ally to Pyke, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference may signal that Pyke provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played alongside Pyke on the same side, 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 alongside Pyke.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Pyke on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Pyke does a decent job of protecting Orianna during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Orianna that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Pyke is a good companion for Orianna. By playing on the same team as Orianna, he raises their win rate by 1.4% to 48.9%. This shows that there is pretty good synergy between Orianna and Pyke that results in them performing better together than alone.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Pyke teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Orianna players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Orianna and Pyke together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of engage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order to synergize with Pyke during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Orianna and Pyke synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Pyke than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Pyke with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Orianna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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