Kai'Sa vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Kai'Sa
based on 1,464 Kai'Sa vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Olaf
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown here feature some vital Kai'Sa versus Olaf matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Olaf..
Kai'Sa often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Olaf. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Olaf
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually fairs equally well when playing against Olaf, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes an ok counter for Olaf.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate compared to Olaf, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kai'Sa into Olaf.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa also has only a small amount of utility and CC, 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a somewhat poor counter to Olaf. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kai'Sa to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention 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.
Kai'Sa most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Olaf. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Olaf build include Nashor's Tooth, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Olaf than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when countering Olaf with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Olaf as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Olaf counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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