League of Legends - Olaf Champion Strategy and Item Build Guide

Olaf

Basic Information

Champion Stats

Lore

Skills

Icon	Description
	Berserker Rage INNATE:  Olaf’s Attack Speed is increased by 1% for each 1% of his Health he is missing.
	Undertow (Target Range: 400/1000, Speed: 1550, Cost: 60 Mana, Cooldown: 7)ACTIVE: Olaf throws an axe into the ground at a target location, dealing damage to enemies it passes through and slowing their Movement Speed. If Olaf picks up the axe, the ability’s cooldown is reduced by 4.5 seconds. Olaf throws an axe to target location, dealing 70/115/160/205/250 (+100% bonus Attack Damage) physical damage to units it passes through and slowing them by 29/33/37/41/45% for up to 2.5 seconds. The further the Axe flies, the longer the slow lasts, but it is never less than 1.5 seconds.If Olaf picks up the axe, the ability’s cooldown is reduced by 4.5 seconds.
	Vicious Strikes  (Cost: 30 Mana, Cooldown: 16)The character’s Attack Speed is increased, he gains Life Steal and has increased healing from all sources based on how much Health he is missing. For 6 seconds, Olaf gains 14/16/18/20/22% Life Steal and his Attack Speed is increased by 40/50/60/70/80%.During this time, Olaf also receives 1% increased healing from all sources for every 2% of Health he is missing.
	Reckless Swing  (Target Range: 325, Cost: 21/34.5/48/61.5/75, Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8)ACTIVE: Olaf deals 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+ 40 % of total attack damage) true damage to his target. If he doesn’t kill his target, he inflicts 30 % of the total damage dealt to himself as true damage. Basic attack reduce the cooldown of this ability by 1 second.
	Ragnarok (Effect Radius: 1200, Cooldown: 100/90/80)The character temporarily becomes immune to disables. PASSIVE: Olaf gains 20/30/40 Armor and 20/30/40 Magic Resist. ACTIVE: Olaf removes all disables from himself and becomes immune to them for the next 6 seconds. Olaf also receives a 50/60/70% Movement Speed bonus towards enemy champions for 1 second. During this time, Olaf loses the passive portion of Ragnarok and gains 40/60/80 Attack Damage.

Strategy

Top Lane

• Olaf can farm very effectively and can snowball hard if left unchecked so try to farm as much as you can while the game is either stable or in your favor. When the game is skewed to the enemy’s favor, you should try as much as you can to gank enemy champions to balance the lead again. Staying in lane and continuing your farm while your teammates get wrecked only furthers the enemy’s lead.
• You can initially take a jungle minion camp to help you sustain in lane if you’re faced against a champion that you’re weak against.
• Farm your gold until you reach a significant level where you can kill your enemy champion in the lane. This is around a level where you have access to all of your basic skills and a few levels higher if its against a tough match-up.
• Since you’ll be going with a teleport summoner’s spell, try to observe the map for teamfights that you could join in. Having the ability to ignore CC is crucial in teamfights so opt to always join the fray.
• It is important that you scale well in the game since you’ll be the main driving force in absorbing the enemy’s damage. So don’t get too caught up in walking around aimlessly without an objective.

Jungle

• Your aim is to farm your jungle until you get enough levels to help gank the other lanes. Be sure that you are at least level 3 before ganking so that you’ll have access to all of your basic spells. This will increase the chances of the gank and not waste the time you used in rotating instead of farming.
• Olaf has great self-sustain so don’t hold back against jungle monsters as you can easily regenerate your health with the lifesteal and the health given back from his (E) Reckless Swing.
• Always observe the tide of the game and if the enemy jungler is dead, try to steal as much of his jungle camps as you can. This will lessen his farm significantly while increasing yours with the added camps you clear besides your own jungle creeps.
• Try to pick up his ax as much as possible when casting it on jungle creeps so as to reduce the cooldown allowing you to spam it continuously.
• After you successfully kill enemy champions, always damage the enemy turret as much as you can before leaving the lane to gain extra gold income from them. This will push your lead even further and potentially snowball you into an unstoppable champion.
•  Slowly take objectives and you will eventually gain enough leverage and lead from the opposing team that you’ll almost always guarantee a win.

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Summoner Spells

Top Lane		Jungle
Teleport	Ghost	Smite	Ghost

Item Builds

Top Lane

Starter Items
Doran’s Blade	Health Potion	Warding Totem

Core Items

Core Items
Spirit Visage	The Black Cleaver	Titanic Hydra

Spirit Visage – Spirit Visage is a must-have item for Olaf as it increases the effectiveness of his heals and lifesteal. The item also grants him extra health and magic resistance which are great stats to begin with.

The Black Cleaver – This item increases his stickiness, allowing him to catch up to escaping enemies faster. This item also shreds armor with each physical damage you inflict, making it compatible with most of your abilities. Aside from that, it also grants cooldown reduction and health, making it a perfect offensive item for Olaf.

Titanic Hydra – Olaf scales well with health, making this item a must have for him. The unique passive grants him tremendous on-hit damage while applying a cleave in a cone behind his target. Not only does this item makes him an offensive juggernaut, but the added health and regeneration allows Olaf to have more sustain in skirmishes.

Full Item Build

Full Item Build
Ninja Tabi	The Black Cleaver	Titanic Hydra
Spirit Visage	Frozen Mallet	Righteous Glory

Ninja Tabi – Ninja Tabi improves his defense against basic attacks. This allows him to last more in team fights especially if the enemy has a lot of physical damage.

Frozen Mallet – Frozen Mallet stacks with The Black Cleaver, slowing enemies even more when you are chasing them. Top it all of with a well-placed (Q) Undertow against enemies and you pretty much have a struggling enemy who can’t escape you because of the slows.

Righteous Glory – The recent patches saw Righteous Glory as an essential item for tanky initators and champions with not much gap closers. The active on this item greatly increases his movement speed while slowing enemies at the end of its duration. This is a good initiator item, especially when paired with (R) Ragnarok.

Situational Items

Situational Items
Sterak’s Gage	Blade of the Ruined King	Dead Man’s Plate

Sterak’s Gage – Sterak’s Gage makes Olaf survive longer in team fights. This item also gives him immense base attack damage. Get this item if you want to be aggressive in team fights and lead the charge in initiating skirmishes.

Blade of the Ruined King – Blade of the Ruined King increases his offensive capability, as he can cast it on an enemy to catch onto them. This item can be a substitute to a multitude of items in his core, the only problem is that it doesn’t offer much on the defensive side. This item is all attack damage, hence why it’s so risky since there are better options such as The Black Cleaver.

Dead Man’s Plate – Dead Man’s Plate is a great defensive tool that also increases your movement speed with its passive. This item also grants Olaf a lot of armor and health which are good stats that makes him s

Jungle

Starter Items
Hunter’s Talisman	Refillable Potion

Core Items

Core Items
Stalker’s Blade: Cinderhulk	Titanic Hydra	Righteous Glory

Stalker’s Blade: Cinderhulk – Cinderhulk is the best item out of all the enchantment because of the increased 20% health that makes him tankier and more powerful. This item also deals damage to nearby enemies, something that Olaf can benefit from.

​Full Item Build

Full Item Build
Stalker’s Blade – Cinderhulk	Titanic Hydra	Righteous Glory
Ninja Tabi	Spirit Visage	Frozen Mallet

Situational Items

Situational Items
Dead Man’s Plate	Blade of the Ruined King	Sterak’s Gage

Playing Against

• Olaf’s ult (R) Ragnarok grants him immunity to disables ignoring any CC that you throw at him. Try to bait his ult (R) Ragnarok and then disabling him after. This will ensure that you will control Olaf during teamfights and not let him wreak havoc amongst your allies.
• (Q) Undertow allows Olaf to chase you effortlessly if he catches the axes as the cooldown is reduced significantly and the skill slows you as well. Try to juke from this axes to not only avoid it but also throw off Olaf as he will be catching the axes in awkward positions.
• Olaf is very immobile when it comes to chasing enemy champions as he relies primarily on his summoner spells for gap closing and extra movement speed bonus. He can also easily be kited since he lacks any solid CCs to lock down his enemies.

Hard Counters

• Kennen – Kennen can effectively zone out and harass Olaf with his (Q) Thundering Shuriken limiting Olaf’s farm and even potentially kill him if he keeps up the harass.
• Kayle – Kayle can kite Olaf easily with her (W) Divine Blessing. Olaf without proper CC would be useless against Kayle as she can kite and heal herself over and over again against Olaf’s potential harass.
• Garen – Olaf excels at killing his enemies the lower his health his. Unfortunately, Garen stops that from happening as he can just use Demacian Justice to finish him based on his missing health.

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