Talk:Orianna/@comment-68.193.173.8-20120814013555/@comment-220.233.163.71-20120814022944

When I first picked up Orianna this is something I struggled with as well. With the playstyle I personally use I don't get a great chance to kill during the laning phase, sure I'll get a kill if they screw up or the jungle gets a good gank off, but they way I play her is to deny the enemy early game, once i get 2DRings dissonance at lvl 3 can one shot the caster minions each wave making it really easy to scare the other champ away, getting you more CS and denying the enemy. One good example was a match i had against an ahri, her ult and charm make it a massive pain to do any major damage to her, but by playing it carefully I managed to out CS her by a tonne, when team fights started I only had 1 kill, but she had none. you might think this screwed us both over but with Orianna it is insanly easy to get an assist for every kill in a team fight, and the money from them racks up fast, Ive finished matches with the least number of kills but 3rd or 4th highest gold count simply because I had a MASSIVE number of assists.

Orianna to me, doesn't feel like she is ment to be great early game, but if you play smart and use her utility, get to mid/late game without over feeding the other mid champion, then she starts to really shine, her ratios may look poor but dropping your ball onto a malphite as he charges in, using R and then W with 500 AP, if well placed, can do incredible amounts of damage, I'm talking team fights ending with 0 team mates dead in seconds incredible. granted it is rare for that to happen.