Brand vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Brand
based on 2,321 Brand vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Olaf
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
Advice to Win Against Olaf
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
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.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
Brand vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Brand in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Brand vs. Olaf counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Brand often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Olaf. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Olaf
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Who is Better, Brand or Olaf?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when taking on Olaf, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes an ok counter to Olaf.
While Brand does have a higher win rate compared to Olaf, when facing one another, Brand also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Brand into Olaf.
Furthermore, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 in League of Legends, in Brand vs Olaf matchups, Brand is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Brand is a decent counter to Olaf. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average racks up less CS compared to Olaf. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Brand versus Olaf build include Liandry's Anguish, Shard of True Ice, and Demonic Embrace. When Brand combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Olaf than with most other common builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 50.4% when playing against Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Olaf as Brand, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Brand vs Olaf counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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