What Is Your Favorite Version of Randy Orton?

I went with Legacy although what I realized is that I find most if not all of his eras had flashes of brilliance but also trailed off sometimes as well.

Legend Killer Orton in late ‘03-mid ‘04 was great but his face turn and subsequent awful ‘06 run into ‘07 were pretty bad
Age of Orton was great in mid ‘07 into early ‘08 but due to injury brought a halt to anything else
Legacy was great when he was feuding with the McMahons but the whole Batista/DX/Cena thing and everything after was awful
The face turn after started off white hot but fizzled after losing to Miz (which that would kill any push losing to Miz multiple times on PPV)
The Authority was probably my least favorite era of Orton
The Wyatt Family stuff started off great but was killed after that awful match at Mania and subsequent House of Horrors
Current Orton had a few flashes here and there in feuds with AJ, Hardy, Edge but everything else was forgettable imo

The Legend Killer and his run with Evolution for me. Sure his stuff in 2020 has been good, but the majority of his career has been filled with mediocre matches and boring storylines that feel like he is going through the motions. I know some people rank him as one of the all time greats, he would not even crack the top 50 for me. People seem so willing to overlook the 9 months of a year he is boring and give him a pass for it as long as he has a couple of months where he is "motivated".

His original run, just has to be. From 07 up to probably the last 2 and a bit years he was the bane of alot of main event angles and big matches. In a few years time when this past run becomes classic, I will definitely laud it as being close to his best work.

I love everything Orton has done but seeing this is the classic board and the Legend Killer was my favorite that’s what I will go with.

All of them have they're special characteristics and moments.

I am Legend Killer Orton when it all comes down to it. That's the Orton I pretty much grew up on. I love Age Of Orton 07/08 as well; secondary Orton I grew up with. I think that was Orton's best title reign to date. And was this great transition into the Viper character. I loved Legacy and seeing the growth of Orton. Orton creating his own faction like Evolution and coming after Triple H. Loved the full circle story. His 2010 Face run was alright, it started really strong. But totally fizzled out by the end of 2010. And I think one of my least favorite Orton performances was WM 27. I think Orton was really bland in 2010-2013. With his work with Christian being the only really appealing stuff from that era. Authority Orton was really boring at points, but you can see Orton in this era really matured as character. At this point he's done everything you could possibly do a s*** ton of times over again. He's fixture of the company and see's himself in this matured light. I think his work with Bryan was fantastic. As well as WM XXX match. Evolution reunion. At the end it was good run. I never cared much after his program with Seth Rollins; and his work with Wyatt was garbage. And I personally thought he was going to go to AEW or try to venture out somewhere. And I never really cared much for what Orton was doing, until his work with Kofi in 2019. And I think this is some of Orton's greatest work.

Hands down the legend killer, should've always kept that gimmick. The viper became boring, I couldn't stand it.

Legend Killer Orton should've been the one to break Taker's streak in a second confrontation, o well.