Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Cassiopeia versus Olaf matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Cassiopeia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Olaf..
Cassiopeia usually has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Olaf. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Cassiopeia usually loses when facing off against Olaf, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Cassiopeia makes a bad counter for Olaf.
While Cassiopeia does have a lower winrate compared to Olaf, when facing one another, Cassiopeia also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Cassiopeia into Olafas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Cassiopeia 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Cassiopeia vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Cassiopeia is a bad counter to Olaf. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Cassiopeia against Olaf.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cassiopeia to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cassiopeia most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Olaf. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Cassiopeia versus Olaf build consist of Liandry's Anguish, Seraph's Embrace, and Rylai's Crystal Scepter. When Cassiopeia included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Olaf than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Cassiopeia boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when playing against Olaf with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Olaf as Cassiopeia, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Cassiopeia vs Olaf clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Olaf as Cassiopeia are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.