Can we buff Orianna please?

Cloud273·Apr 12, 2015·3 votes·1,656 views

I think Orianna is a really interesting champ who offers a lot of utility to her team. However, none of Orianna's abilities scale very well with AP. I don't understand why there's so much hatred for this champ. Orianna deserves the damage that other mages bring to their team. Right now, orianna is a champion with garbage scaling who is way too easy to tower dive. I'm not going to sugar coat this. Orianna has been overnerfed, and meanwhile we have champs who scale 100% with AP and offer just as much utility as her (utility is more than just shields, heals, and MS boosts). Orianna deserves better than this. Buff her please.

15 Comments

Leblancs BoobApr 12, 20154 votes

Orianna is the Caitlyn/Thresh/Lee Sin of mid lane. She may not be the strongest at all times but she will ALWAYS be relevant. She's arguably the safest mid laner in the game due to her waveclear and great shield with free stats attached. On top of that she provides strong cc and decent burst. Trust me she's still an amazing champion that doesn't need buffs in the slightest.

Cloud273Apr 13, 20151 votes

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Orianna is the Caitlyn/Thresh/Lee Sin of mid lane. She may not be the strongest at all times but she will ALWAYS be relevant. She's arguably the safest mid laner in the game due to her waveclear and great shield with free stats attached. On top of that she provides strong cc and decent burst. Trust me she's still an amazing champion that doesn't need buffs in the slightest.

She has no blinks or dashes. She honestly isn't that safe.

Reynard the ƒoxApr 12, 20153 votes

Surely you're joking.

Orianna has ABSURD late game scaling. I've also never heard ANY qq for Orianna any time recently.

Cloud273Apr 12, 20151 votes

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Surely you're joking.

Orianna has ABSURD late game scaling. I've also never heard ANY qq for Orianna any time recently.

70% isn't that much

Reynard the ƒoxApr 12, 20152 votes

oh youre not even ranked

im not gonna waste my time discussing balance with the likes of you

goodbye

Nameless VoiceApr 12, 20153 votes

Maybe it's just me, but I always thought an 0.7 AP ratio on an ultra-utility mage's basic skill is too high.

At the moment, mana items have been nerfed, which leaves all mana-using mages feeling a little bit weak, but Ori's ratios definitely do not need a buff.

EndlessSorcererApr 12, 20152 votes

While her burst isn't quite as high as burst mages, it is still quite significant and her utility (W, E, R) and consistent damage (passive, Q) make up for it. Orianna's early game is focused on farming, but she's a powerful threat in mid-to-late game teamfights and serves as great followup for an initiator.

Her Q cooldown at max CDR is about 2 seconds and her passive can deal a lot of damage with some utility tower, so you have a lot of damage over time. In addition, Orianna's abilities can be used very quickly to burst targets and have a relatively low cooldown, especially with Athene's Unholy Grail.

Cloud273Apr 12, 20151 votes

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While her burst isn't quite as high as burst mages, it is still quite significant and her utility (W, E, R) and consistent damage (passive, Q) make up for it. Orianna's early game is focused on farming, but she's a powerful threat in mid-to-late game teamfights and serves as great followup for an initiator.

Her Q cooldown at max CDR is about 2 seconds and her passive can deal a lot of damage with some utility tower, so you have a lot of damage over time. In addition, Orianna's abilities can be used very quickly to burst targets and have a relatively low cooldown, especially with Athene's Unholy Grail.

You know an AP champ is bad when they're forced to build athene's.

EndlessSorcererApr 12, 20153 votes

What? A champion building an item which has great synergy with their kit and allows them to spam spells frequently means that they are bad?

JonesybonesApr 12, 20151 votes

I got ym first quadra on oriana. Dude she is fine. She is really strong.

DJ Di0Apr 12, 20151 votes

She's fine imo. Sure she has no absurd scaling on any of her abilities, but a good Shockwave can influence a teamfight heavily, especially when used in conjunction with other aoe abilties like Absolute Zero or Cyclone (this combo is really good since Wukong's ult scaling is stupid good)

AtheosisXApr 12, 20151 votes

Rofl...

GaleWinUnleashedApr 13, 20151 votes

Uh... What? Orianna is pretty much always perfectly fine, she just falls in and out of the meta over time. Even now, with the poor mana regen itemization, she can still do very well.

GodhriApr 13, 20151 votes

The thing about Orianna is that she isn't meant to be a pure burst AP champ. She's meant to be able to deal a decent amount of burst while also capable of dishing out sustained damage. This is evident by her passive "Clock Werk" (or something like that). She pretty much out trades anyone in a trade that lasts longer than 2 seconds early game.

Late game, her main focus is her ability to poke from a far and even to assassinate if she's fed enough. I say assassinate because people sometimes have a hard time keeping track of her ball and won't really pay attention to it as she throws it near them for R-->W-->E.

Another aspect of her late game is her ultimate. It works great for any team comps that have at least one AOE burst champion like Ryze, Brand, Annie, Amumu, etc. She may seem weak because of her low base values and relatively low scaling, but she is actually quite strong.

MS 06R Zaku II Apr 4, 20171 votes

This was posted two years ago, and I cannot say I remember how she was then. But now I can't remember that last time I saw here in game. Right now she is bad, she is not trash but she is certainly not good at all. Alot of people well say "she is good enough" but that means nothing in league of legends. Either you are OP or not played at all. Play Ori aganist some Mid laners your entire rotation well take away maybe haft their hp while some midlaners can kill Ori with one button. She needs a serious buff, now more than ever.