The whole roster needs to be balanced firstly before any face or heel turns as Raw is overloaded with big names faces in John Cena, CM Punk, Triple H, The Rock when around, The Undertaker when around and The Big Show whilst only having Chris Jericho and Brock Lesnar as big name heels and they are barely around. Over on SmackDown there is only Randy Orton and Sheamus as faces but Wade Barrett, Alberto Del Rio, Bryan Danielson, Cody Rhodes, Christian and Mark Henry as heels so it is all very lop sided right now.
I do agree in theory though that Randy Orton would benefit from turning heel as he is so much better suited to that role than as a face as being a face makes his character awkward and very watered down. I said when i first came on this forum back in early 2006 that Randy Orton was the man who would be the uber heel in the mould of Triple H in the long term and all he needed to do was become a bit more sadistic in order to be that which as we saw from mid 2008 through to late 2009 he did become.
It seems as if SmackDown is basically just a breeding ground these days for younger and less established stars in order to build them up or introduce them to the fans and then to go to Raw regardless of whether they are over or ready. So if that is the plan then i would move Randy Orton back to Raw as soon as Brock Lesnar has finished his year stint as then push Randy Orton in the exact same way and with the exact same character that he had from mid 2008 through to late 2009 as WWE does need a believable uber heel and whilst his mic work isn't great he is over, believable, has star power, is a very good in ring worker and can play sadistic.
