No Love for Orion?

GreyKnightDantes#1402

Is it me or does no one, and like i mean NO ONE, use Orion in MP? Like, i've played around 25 matches against WE and I've yet to see anyone use him at all...

Seeing as I don't play alot of WE, does anyone know why?

Combat_Wombat

Glade lords and Durthu just have way more advantages to bringing them.

Commissar_G#7535

His ranged attack is too slow and too short ranged.

Walrus

GreyKnightDantes said:

Is it me or does no one, and like i mean NO ONE, use Orion in MP? Like, i've played around 25 matches against WE and I've yet to see anyone use him at all...

Seeing as I don't play alot of WE, does anyone know why?

I won one battle as Orion against Clan Angrund. He is a good lord against Dwarfs, because of his free magic attacks. Wait until they blob and go crazy on them. Also, he has a lot of armor piercing damage. My only complaint about him is his very low armor. Maybe he could get a buff to health, he takes almost full damage from non armor piercing lords/monsters.

Berlioz

@Walrus he is good in that particular Match up..maybe due to clan angrund's ethereal heroes,dwarves's magic resistance makes his damage output mediocre

Howeverer i rarely pick orion because he has no healing so you are forced to bring lore of life,and other than that..

the female glade lord has : potions+Net+Arrow of kurnous

Durthu has: lore of beasts+his 2 personal abilities +he's a monster in melee+phisycal resistance (+flame weakness)

Orion is also considered a large unit,this way cannons and ranged troops have much more accuracy against him

The only good things about him are those 2 free/unlimited magic abilities

psychoak

Orion's best use is as a high level troop buffer due to the previously mentioned flaws in using him in a combat role, and the epic nature of those buffs. Those don't actually exist in custom battles, so there goes the neighborhood...

You can get a vanilla lord riding a dragon for about the same cost as Orion.