Orianna Mid Lane Wild Rift Guide

How to play

• Poke while keeping track of your ball Your 1st ability moves the ball and damages enemies along its path. Keep it near the opponent while staying far enough back to avoid their reply.
• Put your ball on a teammate going in Use your 3rd ability to shield an ally and attach the ball to them. When they reach the enemy team, your ultimate pulls nearby enemies toward the ball.
• Wait for enemies to group around the ball Use your ultimate when it can catch important targets your team is ready to attack.

Build Snapshot

Rune Setup

Summoner Spells

Orianna Mid Lane Counters

Who counters Orianna Mid Lane in Wild Rift (WR)? These champions beat Orianna in the mid lane matchup, with how each one wins. Learn to play around them or ban them in ranked.

• Zed: Living Shadow (2nd) changes the angle of Razor Shuriken (1st) around Orianna's ball, and Death Mark (Ult) places Zed behind her after she has spent Command: Protect (3rd) on poke. Keep the ball attached when his ultimate is ready, place Command: Dissonance (2nd) on the return shadow, and hold Shockwave (Ult) for his reappearance instead of using it to start the trade.
• Katarina: Katarina dashes through minions onto you and resets off kills, and your slow ball cannot catch a champion who is constantly blinking, so one pick on you starts her snowball.
• Kassadin: You bully his weak early lane, but once his ultimate spike arrives he blinks onto you and out-scales everything you do, so an even long game slips away from you.
• Zyra: Zyra's plants create repeated pressure from several angles and Grasping Roots (3rd) can hold Orianna inside Stranglethorns (Ult). Roots do not prevent spell casts, so shield immediately and use Dissonance's (2nd) ally speed field to leave before the delayed knockup rather than assuming you cannot respond.

Champions Orianna Is Strong Against

Orianna's best matchups in Wild Rift. Orianna holds an edge against these picks in the mid lane role, so look to press the advantage and contest objectives.

• Lux: Command: Protect (3rd) can absorb part of Lux's poke and its attached defenses help while the Ball remains on you, but Light Binding (1st) passes through and damages minions in Wild Rift, Lucent Singularity (3rd) slows before automatically detonating, and Final Spark (Ult) is global. Pressure her between cooldowns instead of treating Q (1st) as her only threat.
• Annie: Orianna can control the wave outside Annie's short basic-spell range, but a loaded Pyromania (Passive) stun into Tibbers (Ult) can exceed one shield. Track Annie's passive stacks, keep the Ball attached for its armor and magic resistance when she can Flash engage, and punish while the stun is unprepared.
• Veigar: Veigar has no dash and needs time to scale, so Ball poke and wave control can build priority early. Event Horizon (3rd) still controls a large area without having to hit first, and walking into its edge stuns; keep the Ball in range without stepping inside the cage for a trade.
• Vex: Orianna never dashes, so she does not create free Gloom (Passive) marks. Mistral Bolt (1st) and Looming Darkness (3rd) are telegraphed, but Personal Space (2nd) hits immediately around Vex and any basic ability can carry a prepared Doom (Passive) fear; track the fear bar before stepping into Shockwave (Ult) range.
• Galio: Galio wants you inside his taunt range and your kit never needs to go there, though his tankiness and magic resist mean you deny his priority rather than kill him.

Early Game

Lane around the Ball's position, not only Orianna's. Send it through the wave with Command: Attack (1st), then return it through the enemy mid with Protect (3rd) when an allied-champion target creates that line. Use Dissonance's (2nd) enemy slow and allied movement speed to control the short trade. Protect's (3rd) attached defenses matter before the damage lands, so keep the Ball on yourself when an all-in is imminent rather than assuming the shield alone covers a full combo.

Mid Game

This is where priority becomes objectives. Shove the wave, ward the river, and put the ball on a choke or a flank so your jungler can start dragon or Herald inside your zone. Both first objectives spawn at six minutes, so move toward the side your lanes can control. Herald is usually the stronger even conversion, while dragon is worth prioritizing when your composition can keep winning grouped fights toward soul. Your roams are not assassin roams, but Command: Dissonance (2nd) and Command: Shockwave (Ult) can hold a side-lane target long enough for allies to finish. Take side-lane tempo when the map allows, but return before the objective setup begins.

Late Game

Full items and you become the most important non-engage button on the map. Your poke chunks from range, your shield can save a diving teammate or your own life, and your ultimate can decide an entire fight the moment the enemy clusters. Position behind your frontline like the squishy you are, because dying without casting your ultimate is the one way to lose a fight you were winning. Keep the ball where it threatens the most enemies at once and let your team play around the zone you control. One well-placed Shockwave (Ult) late ends games that were not otherwise close.

Teamfights

You start the fight without stepping forward when the Ball is already attached to an allied champion diving into their formation or resting at a location set by Command: Attack (1st). Command: Protect (3rd) cannot attach it to a minion. When enemies clump, Shockwave's (Ult) 0.75-second stun and 325-unit pull set up your team's damage; follow with Dissonance (2nd) so its damage and slow field cover the gathered targets. Keep track of the Ball leash, because letting it snap back puts Shockwave (Ult) on a brief cooldown at exactly the wrong moment.