Bard vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Bard
based on 960 Bard vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Olaf Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Olaf
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some vital Bard vs. Olaf matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Olaf. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Bard or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Olaf, with a 54.5% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter for Olaf.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate than Olaf, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Olafas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Olaf matchups, Bard 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 late stage team fights.
Bard is a great counter to Olaf. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Bard 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average picks up a lot less CS relative to Olaf. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Bard versus Olaf build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Olaf than with most other common item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 54.5% when playing against Olaf with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Olaf as Bard, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Bard vs Olaf battles, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.5% win rate overall.
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