Malphite vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Malphite
based on 1,311 Malphite vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malphite vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Malphite vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Malphite
Tips for Playing as Malphite against Olaf
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
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.
Malphite vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Malphite in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several influential Malphite vs. Olaf counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the pair. For instance, Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, showing that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Malphite usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Olaf. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malphite and Olaf
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Who is Better, Malphite or Olaf?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Malphite usually loses when taking on Olaf, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Malphite makes a poor counter for Olaf.
While Malphite does have a lower winrate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Malphite also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Malphite into Olaf.
Moreover, Malphite has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malphite vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Malphite is a somewhat poor counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malphite against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Malphite versus Olaf build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Olaf than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 48.3% when countering Olaf with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Olaf as Malphite, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Malphite vs Olaf LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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