Illaoi vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Illaoi
based on 576 Illaoi vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Olaf
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Illaoi in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some important Illaoi versus Olaf counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Illaoi typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Olaf. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Olaf
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Olaf?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when facing off against Olaf, with a 55.6% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes a fantastic counter for Olaf.
While Illaoi does have a much higher winrate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Illaoi into Olaf.
Additionally, Illaoi has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Olaf matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Illaoi is a great counter to Olaf. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Olaf. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Illaoi versus Olaf build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Olaf than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 55.6% when countering Olaf with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Olaf as Illaoi, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Illaoi vs Olaf counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 55.6% winrate overall.
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