Orphea Build Guide “I won't miss your face.”

Orphea is an odd caster with above-average survivability and high damage output potential but limited access to crowd control. Given that all of Orphea's Abilities have a cast time or delay, they can all be avoided by prepared opponents... unless you are better prepared.

Strengths

• Powerful burst damage
• High sustain damage potential for a caster
• Relatively high survivability

Weaknesses

• All Abilities have a short cast time or delay, making them avoidable
• Very limited access to crowd control
• Relatively short range on most Abilities
• Unable to efficiently claim Mercenary Camps
• Particularly weak when playing from behind

Overflowing Chaos Build

Recommended

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Meta build. Focuses on providing reliable damage through Overflowing Chaos stacks generation for powerful Basic Attacks woven between Ability casts.

Shadow Waltz Build

Situational

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Level 20 ?

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Orphea's Shadow Waltz Build focuses on improving sustain damage, particularly against tanky, melee-heavy team compositions. En Pointe, Allegrissimo, and Bond of Anguish combo together to dramatically improve Shadow Waltz's damage potential. Recommended for advanced Orphea players only.

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Orphea synergizes with

Since Orphea depends highly on skillshots to deal damage, she works well with any Hero that can provide reliable crowd control. Her frailty also makes her dependent on other Heroes to peel for her against melee Assassins particularly; Tanks tend to fulfill these two needs, though other Hero types can too.

Orphea is countered by

Since Orphea relies chiefly on skillshots with a cast time to deal damage, she does particularly poorly against Heroes that have ways of quickly dodging her Abilities.

Orphea's stronger maps

Orphea's average maps

Orphea's weaker maps

Orphea's inability to deal sustain PvE damage makes her a poor choice on Maps where the Objective consists of Monsters that have to be killed. Otherwise, she is a reasonable pick on most Maps, as long as another Hero is able to claim Mercenary Camps.

• Each enemy Hero hit by Overflowing Chaos generates one Chaos, making area hits key to improving your survivability.
• Shadow Waltz may be tempting to use on-Cooldown, but using it to avoid dangerous skillshots is paramount.
• Chomp synergises naturally with Shadow Waltz; use the latter to dash to your intended target.
• Both Dread's initial wave and eruption can hit a given target.

Compared to most other casters, Orphea provides higher-than-average on-demand burst damage and decent sustain damage. On the other hand, she lacks much crowd control, making it necessary to pick her along Heroes who can provide it. As with many Heroes who provide little more than damage, Orphea's popularity depends entirely on her power level resulting from game balance. Regardless, building a team composition that aims to stay ahead of one's opponents in terms of Experience is the best way of exploiting Orphea's strength as a snowballing Hero.

Due to her reliance on crowd control, Orphea is at her best when part of a roaming group of Heroes. She can hold her own in the offlane as well against most melee Heroes, but must be careful when rotating and may need help clearing out large Mercenary Camps.