Talk:Orianna/@comment-15562896-20120523225259/@comment-74.179.207.66-20120524000309

Well there are a few lanes that orianna has a hard time against, usually hard to kill people or people that exceed her range. Generally you just get a feel for her when you play a few games, but I usually don't bother using my ball early on and focus on harassing with AutoAttacks and farming, once I hit level 3 i'lll start a bit of harassing. Usually to harass you simply try to hit them with your ball and just use dissonance, the hard part is learning when you can lead your opponent into it and keep hitting them. After you hit them with your Q and W generally you'll try to follow up as much as possible by forcing them out with more autoattacks and using your spells when they're off cooldown. One thing that i've found very helpful when harassing, is you can place the ball far behind their minions and then walk back, the ball wont be recalled and you can exceed your Q range by bringing it from a point outside your range to a point inside. Once you get your ult you can start dealing even more damage and hold them inside your range. The one thing you need to remember about Orianna's ult is that the delay can sometimes allow your enemies to simply walk away from it, so i usually only use it if you first hit them with your Q and, unless they immediately use and escape, will always pull them. Also she can use it to escape if she places it behind the chasing champ since it pulls them a set distance toward the center of the ball. When first starting out in lane I usually start bootpot, then if i'm completely dominating the lane, i'll rush a rabadan's after a doran's ring or two for mana regen, if the lane is pretty even, just rush a catalyst. Then you can either stick with the catalyst and go for a rabadan's or get the rod of ages for less damage but more sustain. After rabadan's I like to pick up something to enhance her autoattacks like a lich's bane or nashor's tooth.

I hope you enjoy this wall of text.