Aphelios vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Aphelios
based on 797 Aphelios vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Olaf
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Aphelios in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some significant Aphelios versus Olaf counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, showing that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Aphelios often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Olaf. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Olaf
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Aphelios usually wins when trying to fight Olaf, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Aphelios makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Aphelios does have a higher winrate than Olaf, when on opposite teams, Aphelios also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Aphelios into Olafas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aphelios also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Olaf matchups, Aphelios is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Aphelios is a decent counter to Olaf. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Aphelios against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Aphelios to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Olaf. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Aphelios versus Olaf build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Olaf than with many other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 51.1% battling Olaf with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Olaf as Aphelios, Aphelios players should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Aphelios vs Olaf counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.1% winrate overall.
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