Talk:Orianna/@comment-5478645-20140804201127/@comment-1330314-20140804225541

Early game Orianna isn't specifically safe, per se, but she has so much harassing power that, at high levels of play at least, she can completely shove her opponent out of lane through her long-range Ball poke and her mid-range supercharged autoattacks. Nerfing her AD is the best way to ensure she doesn't outtrade early game midlaners as easily, particularly as she's meant to have a weak laning phase, due to her amazing late-game scaling.