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Orianna has a severe weakness

64539310_DEL·3/30/2016, 10:04:20 PM·2 votes·1,027 views

I recently started playing the Lady of Clockwork and really enjoy her, but I couldn't help but wonder if her stats were on par with that of other Mages in the mid lane. As I suspected her AD, MR, and Armor are noticeable lower than most. I think that this is because her passive and her E passive grant her bonus magic damage and MR/armor respectively. I understand that this might be to balance her, but it just doesn't seem fair that her abilities limit her other base stats. Other champion abilities help the champion out. But in Oriannas case it seems the her passive MR/Armor are nonexistent because of her low base MR/Armor in the first place. As for her AD it completely sucks compared to a champion like Malzahar.

Edit: also her ball is rarely attached to her in skirmishes so the. She really loses a lot more resistance.

5 Comments

1 800 MID LANE3/30/2016, 10:14:37 PM1 votes

Considering her utility, I wouldn't say she needs higher numbers. She has a tricky kit to balance because of her utility. She can't really do support for lack of any lockdown outside of her ult, but her mid lane viability in solo queue is currently somewhat low due to her being a bursty control mage that doesn't really do either one well without strong coordination. I haven't seen her played very much at all, come to think of it. Not even in LCS.

Abyssphere3/30/2016, 10:24:29 PM1 votes

Her AD is fair given her passive. If she had normal AD at level 1 her harass would be quite obnoxious.

Her base resistances are poorly tuned though, I agree. Orianna very rarely has the ball attached to herself so it is just bizarre that they balance her armour around the assumption that she does. An armour per level buff would be very reasonable.