Darius vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Darius
based on 1,139 Darius vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Olaf
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Darius in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several valuable Darius against Olaf matchup stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, showing that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Darius often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Olaf. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Darius and Olaf
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Who is Better, Darius or Olaf?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Darius usually wins when facing off against Olaf, with a 55.0% win rate. Thus, Darius makes a great counter to Olaf.
While Darius does have a much higher winrate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Darius also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Darius into Olaf.
Moreover, Darius has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Darius vs Olaf matchups, Darius is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Darius is a great counter for Olaf. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Darius against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Darius to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Olaf. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Darius versus Olaf build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Force of Nature. When Darius incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Olaf than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 55.0% when playing against Olaf with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Olaf as Darius, Darius players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Darius vs Olaf LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.0% win rate overall.
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