Talk:Orianna/@comment-24971427-20170401041726/@comment-4834593-20170528102346

She's my safe midlane pick whenever I'm blind picking or don't specifically think "this champion would do really well here" (typically Lux or Annie), which means that she's by far my most played mid. She's extremely strong in my opinion, mostly in that good play allows you to - at worst - go even in every lane, and beat most of them. On top of that, a high damage build like Morello's -> Luden's allows you to (almost) 100-0 squishy champions, while you can instead opt to wait for a multi-man ult (3+) that may just immediately win you the teamfight. On top of that, she's hard to catch with her movement speed buff and works well with all of ghost, cleanse, barrier and teleport (don't bother with ignite because you'll want to stay further away from your enemies than ignite's range).

In my opinion she's extremely versatile and she never truly gets shut down in lane. To just look at my last games with her, for example: I won 6 of my last 7 games, but I won't count the ARAM one, which makes it 5/6. The first one: Slightly behind, then I hid behind a wall while the enemy team was chasing our Irelia. 4 man ult brought us back into the game. A few minutes later, we get into a fight, I notice the enemy ADC walking into a bush, I put the ball in there into a 3-man shockwave, the ADC is dead, team cleans up the fight. The second one I can't really remember a lot of. We had a smurfing Riven in the top lane but I suspect that the enemy Caitlyn may have been a smurf too. Either way, it was a decent win, nothing too special happened. The third game was an actual perfect game. Went even against Ryze early on, survived an early gank at the cost of flash, slightly outfarmed Ryze all the time, then started roaming. A revenge kill on the enemy top that had just killed our top. A kill from a good jungler gank. A double kill in a skirmish in river. First turret in mid lane. Second turret in top lane. Assist in bot lane, followed by a third turret. And so on. Final score: 10/0/6 with most farm and 4 towers brought down before laning phase was even really over. Fourth game: Got camped HARD and didn't manage to ward well enough against it, resulting in something like 5 or 6 early deaths, alleviated only by getting two kills in a gank on bot lane and managing to stay up in farm by farming max range. Then teamfights came: First teamfight, game was very even, hit a big ult, together with Lucian cleaned up and I got a triple. Second teamfight didn't go well despite a 3 man ult, but because it was close to the enemy team's base they barely got anything from it. Third teamfight, close to baron: Ball on Warwick, he ults in, my ult follows, INSTANT double kill followed by a triple a second after, cleanup and finish. Fifth game: Okay, I'll admit, this one I got carried by the abomination that is Nasus. Still, it doesn't hurt to be able to speed him up and ult people he's next to. Sixth game: The only loss and also one of the most unbelievable surrenders I have seen in all my life. Bot lane lost, mid lane was hard, but didn't really swing either way except for Ahri getting a few good ganks off (farm stayed even), top lane won, though not hard. At 23 minutes, my team surrenders. At the moment people agree to it, I am looking at 4 half health enemies in 1 bush with me walking in range to get my ball there and ult. I daresay that we were about to get a clean ace at the point we surrendered.