Braum vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Braum
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Braum vs Olaf Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Braum
Tips for Playing as Braum against Olaf
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
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.
Braum vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Braum in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some important Braum versus Olaf matchup stats that can help you understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. Braum’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Braum may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Braum often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Olaf. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Braum and Olaf
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Who is Better, Braum or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Braum usually loses when facing off against Olaf, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Braum makes a bad counter to Olaf.
While Braum does have a lower win rate compared to Olaf, when they face off with one another, Braum also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Braum into Olaf.
Moreover, Braum has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Braum vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Braum is a somewhat poor counter to Olaf. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Braum against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Braum in order to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Braum most often accumulates a lot less CS as Olaf. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Braum versus Olaf build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Thornmail, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Braum bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Olaf than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Braum boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Olaf with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Olaf as Braum, Braum players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Braum vs Olaf matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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