Akali vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Akali
based on 1,993 Akali vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Olaf
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Olaf
Olaf has reduced defenses from damage during Ragnarok, despite being immune to disables. If you can't escape from Olaf during Ragnarok, try focusing your damage on him with your teammates.
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
Akali vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Akali in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Akali versus Olaf matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Olaf. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Akali usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Olaf. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Olaf
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Who is Better, Akali or Olaf?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akali usually wins when playing against Olaf, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a good counter to Olaf.
While Akali does have a higher win rate compared to Olaf, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Akali into Olafas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Olaf matchups, Akali is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Akali is a good counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akali against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Olaf. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Akali versus Olaf build consist of Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Olaf than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 52.8% battling Olaf with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Olaf as Akali, Akali players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Akali vs Olaf LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.8% win rate overall.
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