K'Sante vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as K'Sante
based on 582 K'Sante vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Olaf
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important K'Sante vs. Olaf counter statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, showing that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
K'Sante usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Olaf. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Olaf
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Olaf?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when trying to fight Olaf, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a poor counter to Olaf.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking K'Sante into Olafas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a somewhat poor counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as K'Sante against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Olaf build include Thornmail, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante used at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better countering Olaf than with most other typical item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when playing against Olaf with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Olaf as K'Sante, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for K'Sante vs Olaf matchups, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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