Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
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 provided here underscore some strategic Elise against Olaf counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Olaf..
Elise often has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Olaf. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Elise usually fairs equally well when taking on Olaf, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Elise makes an ok counter to Olaf.
While Elise does have a lower winrate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Elise into Olafas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Elise has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Elise vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter to Olaf. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Elise against Olaf.
To learn all of the intricacies of Elise to counter Olaf during both the laning 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 stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise often racks up a lot less CS relative to Olaf. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Elise versus Olaf build include Night Harvester, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Elise included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Olaf than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Elise had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing against Olaf with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Olaf as Elise, Elise players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Elise vs Olaf counters, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Olaf as Elise are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.