Talk:Orianna/@comment-4934699-20130831035027/@comment-16257908-20130901101015

I'm not a pro but I know a few things about Orianna. Carrying as Orianna depends if the player as skill (obviously :P). She can snowball and carry a game quite easily if you farm a lot during laning phase (probably only Fizz is an exception, punish him for every creep he gets between Autos and Q). If she manages to get fed, her ganks, personally are very decent: walk into a brush, wait a little, throw the ball to the enemy, Shockwave, Dissonance and try to spam Q's and autos while your mate/mates take care of the remaining HP bars. If played passive and you don't overextend it'll get you the best results; however, playing aggressive can be quite rewarding since her ball is like a free moving ward (Q to the top and bot brush to watch out for ganks). While on paper she doesn't look strong in terms of scaling and/or base damage the trick is CDR - get tons of it and your Q can be used almost every second - and utility - even underfed she has a slow/haste, a Game Changing Ultimate, and a shield + the added armor and magic res.

So! I think that she can do quite well in Solo Queue and if manage to get fed a little on your lane (with luck, you can even 2V1 the jungler and the mid if you're careful since all her abilities do AoE damage, of course, I'm imagining this in a perfect way) try to roam for kills and maybe grabbing Boots of Mobility since she's still pretty slow with MS 2. If you do not succeed, let your Marksman and Bruiser/Tank do the killing and help them out with a pseudo-support Orianna. ;)