technically its LBL if youre making the layer permuted. like, you can do 100 ortega solves with the layer unpermuted but for the ones with it permuted, it CAN be considered an LBL solve. You are doing the cube "layer by layer." and by the way, once you make your layer with ortega, you should always know the permutation of the bottom layer, other wise the recognition for xll really sucks.