Game patch 26.20Data Dragon 16.20.1

Reference patch 16.20.1

Ornn

The Fire below the Mountain

Ornn is a durable champion who creates space through control, protection or a committed front line. This overview keeps the explanation practical and leaves patch-sensitive numbers to Riot's structured data and the current in-game tooltip.

TopMixed damageMelee attacks

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Usual roleTop

ClassTank

DifficultyMedium · 5/10

Basic attacksMeleeMelee basic attacks · 175 range.

Damage profileMixed damageThe kit can deal meaningful physical and magic damage. One resistance does not answer every part of it.

Reference patch16.20.1

Strengths and limits

What Ornn does well, and what can go wrong

These are kit-level patterns, not a promise that every lane or matchup plays the same way.

Good patterns

Creates space through durability, control or a reliable front-line threat.
Rewards using the kit's main range, timing and target pattern deliberately.

Limits to respect

Durability does not make an unsupported engage safe or guarantee enough damage to finish a target.
Basic attacks require close access, so enemy range, slows and displacement can deny a clean trade.

Riot ally tips

Use these while learning the champion

Learning build paths of items can help quickly select upgrades in lane.

Volcanic Rupture can be used to set up zoning areas to threaten enemies.

The order of your abilties matters! Try to optimize Brittle usage.

Riot opponent tips

What an opponent is told to watch for

Try to stay away from walls. Ornn is much less strong if he cannot stun you.

Attack Ornn to keep him from creating items in lane.

Practical champion reading

How to read Ornn in a real fight

Use these patterns to ask better questions before choosing an item, target or commitment. They describe the kit, not a guaranteed result.

Damage delivery

Meaningful mixed pressure

One resistance may answer only part of the kit. Check the current build and the rest of the opposing team before specialising defensively.

Fight rhythm

Track the complete ability cycle

Do not judge the champion from one button. Watch which setup, payoff and escape tools are available before choosing a trade or commitment.

Range and access

Needs close access for basic attacks

Range, slows, displacement and terrain can deny the clean contact this champion wants. Plan the route in as carefully as the damage after arrival.

Typical team job

Create space and absorb attention

The kit is usually most valuable when it controls an entrance, protects a carry or begins a fight allies can actually reach. Durability does not make an isolated engage safe.

Control check

Identify the exact movement restriction

Tenacity can shorten only eligible control. Displacements, airborne effects and repeated slows need their own positioning, blocking or movement answer.

Protection and sustain

Do not buy a counter that has no target

Reserve anti-heal and anti-shielding for a visible problem in the full team composition; they are not default answers to every champion.

Resource pattern

Mana and cooldowns both matter

A spell being available does not mean the complete sequence is sustainable. Watch the resource bar as well as the setup and escape cooldowns.

Defensive item reference

What can help against Ornn?

Start with the threat that is actually affecting the match. These are conditional comparisons, not an automatic counter build.

Pre-game choices

DEFENSIVE BOOTS

Neither pair is automatic

This champion is not cleanly answered by the passive on either defensive pair.

Use Plated Steelcaps for meaningful basic attacks, Mercury's Treads for magic damage or reducible control, or keep the build's normal Boots.

DisplacementSlowsHealth-scaling or true damage

SPLIT DEFENCE

Split defence

Health · shields · balanced resistances

Meaningful physical and magic damage makes one resistance incomplete.

Compare the whole team and the champion's current build before specialising.

CONTROL AND ONE KEY SPELL

Control and one key spell

Mercury's Treads · Quicksilver Sash · Banshee's Veil · Edge of Night

Tenacity and a removable-control active can help against the relevant disabling effects. Airborne and displacement effects are not solved simply by stacking Tenacity.

Check the current tooltip and whether the exact effect can be shortened, removed or blocked.

REPEATED SLOWS

Repeated slows

Boots of Swiftness

Slow resistance can be more useful than Tenacity when repeated slowing strength is the main problem.

It gives no armour or magic resistance, so compare the rest of the opposing team.

HEALTH-SCALING OR TRUE DAMAGE

Health-scaling or true damage

Shields · sustain · positioning · exact resistance check

Raw health or one resistance may be incomplete against percent-health, missing-health or true-damage mechanics.

Read the current ability tooltip before choosing defence; these mechanics do not all use the same counter.

Normal Draft and Ranked role map

Where Ornn fits on Summoner's Rift

Each lane is assessed separately. Open a role to reach its queue-specific build and matchup preparation.

TopPrimary role

Historical reference. Recommendation review pending. Ornn has an established solo-lane plan with the income and space needed to trade, manage waves and influence a side lane.

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JungleUnestablished route

Historical reference. Recommendation review pending. Ornn is normally played Top and does not currently have a reviewed Jungle route. Jungle usually needs repeatable monster clear, safe pathing and objective control without lane income. Treat this as a deliberate experiment, not a standard recommendation.

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MidUnestablished route

Historical reference. Recommendation review pending. Ornn is normally played Top and does not currently have a reviewed Mid route. Mid usually needs solo-lane safety plus wave control, roaming or reliable burst pressure. Treat this as a deliberate experiment, not a standard recommendation.

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BotUnestablished route

Historical reference. Recommendation review pending. Ornn is normally played Top and does not currently have a reviewed Bot route. Bot usually needs dependable duo-lane scaling and sustained damage with shared early pressure. Treat this as a deliberate experiment, not a standard recommendation.

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SupportUnestablished route

Historical reference. Recommendation review pending. Ornn is normally played Top and does not currently have a reviewed Support route. Support usually needs useful engage, peel or utility while operating on low gold income. Treat this as a deliberate experiment, not a standard recommendation.

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Kit reference

Ornn abilities

Ability names, descriptions and numeric fields come from Riot Data Dragon. Practical reads are independently written; the current in-game tooltip remains authoritative.

Abilities Data Dragon 16.20.1Cooldown / Cost / Range Data Dragon 16.20.1

Passive

Living Forge

What it doesOrnn gains an additional bonus Armor and Magic Resist from all sources. Ornn can spend gold to forge non-consumable items anywhere. Additionally, he can create masterwork items for himself and for his allies.

Practical readLiving Forge is the always-on rule shaping Ornn's normal trading and fight pattern. Watch its in-game state before committing.

Q ability

Volcanic Rupture

What it doesOrnn slams the ground, sending out a fissure dealing damage and slowing enemies hit. After a small delay, a magma pillar forms at the end location.

Practical readVolcanic Rupture contributes a slowing effect and damage. Its value changes with cooldown, range and target access; recognise the setup before moving into its effective area.

Cooldown9/8.5/8/7.5/7 secCost45Listed range800 units

W ability

Bellows Breath

What it doesOrnn advances, breathing fire. Enemies hit by the final gout of flame become Brittle.

Practical readBellows Breath is part of Ornn's W pattern. Read its listed effect first, then track the cooldown and condition that make the next use valuable.

Cooldown12/11.5/11/10.5/10 secCost45/50/55/60/65Listed range25000 units

E ability

Searing Charge

What it doesOrnn charges, dealing damage to enemies he passes through. If Ornn collides with terrain while charging, the impact creates a shockwave around him which deals damage and knocks up enemies.

Practical readSearing Charge contributes damage. Its value changes with cooldown, range and target access; recognise the setup before moving into its effective area.

Cooldown14/13.5/13/12.5/12 secCost35/40/45/50/55Listed range450 units

Cast commitment

This cast has a wind-up, charge or channel. Movement, interruption or a changing target state can matter before the effect completes.

Ultimate

Call of the Forge God

What it doesOrnn summons a massive elemental at a location which travels toward him with increasing speed. Enemies run over by the elemental take damage, are slowed and are made Brittle. Ornn can recast the ability to charge into the elemental, redirecting it in the direction he hits it, causing the elemental to affect any enemies it runs over to be knocked up, dealing the same damage and re-applying Brittle.

Practical readCall of the Forge God contributes movement or repositioning and a slowing effect. Its value changes with cooldown, range and target access; recognise the setup before moving into its effective area.

Cooldown140/120/100 secCost100Listed range2500 units

Recast

This button has a follow-up cast. The first activation and recast have different jobs, timing or safety checks.

Levels 1–18

Ornn · Health / Mana · Abilities

Base values exclude items, runes, temporary buffs and mode-specific modifiers. Cooldowns are the listed base cooldown before ability haste.

Level 1660 Health341 Mana

Level 3821 Health437 Mana

Level 61,091 Health598 Mana

Level 111,616 Health911 Mana

Level 162,238 Health1,282 Mana

Level 182,513 Health1,446 Mana

Cooldown Data Dragon 16.20.1

Basic abilityVolcanic Rupture

Can receive its first point from level 1. Later ranks normally become available at levels 3, 5, 7 and 9.

Rank 19 secRank 28.5 secRank 38 secRank 47.5 secRank 57 sec

Basic abilityBellows Breath

Can receive its first point from level 1. Later ranks normally become available at levels 3, 5, 7 and 9.

Rank 112 secRank 211.5 secRank 311 secRank 410.5 secRank 510 sec

Basic abilitySearing Charge

Can receive its first point from level 1. Later ranks normally become available at levels 3, 5, 7 and 9.

Rank 114 secRank 213.5 secRank 313 secRank 412.5 secRank 512 sec

UltimateCall of the Forge God

First rank becomes available at level 6; later ranks normally become available at levels 11 and 16.

Rank 1140 secRank 2120 secRank 3100 sec

Open every levelHealth and mana from level 1 to 18

Level	Health	Mana	Ability milestone
1	660	341 Mana	Choose the first basic ability
2	738	388 Mana	Add another basic ability or rank
3	821	437 Mana	Add another basic ability or rank
4	907	488 Mana	Spend one ability point
5	997	542 Mana	Spend one ability point
6	1,091	598 Mana	First ultimate rank normally available
7	1,188	656 Mana	Spend one ability point
8	1,289	716 Mana	Spend one ability point
9	1,395	779 Mana	Spend one ability point
10	1,504	844 Mana	Spend one ability point
11	1,616	911 Mana	Second ultimate rank normally available
12	1,733	981 Mana	Spend one ability point
13	1,854	1,053 Mana	Spend one ability point
14	1,978	1,127 Mana	Spend one ability point
15	2,106	1,203 Mana	Spend one ability point
16	2,238	1,282 Mana	Final ultimate rank normally available
17	2,373	1,363 Mana	Spend one ability point
18	2,513	1,446 Mana	Spend one ability point

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