Nidalee vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Nidalee
based on 233 Nidalee vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Olaf
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here show some strategic Nidalee vs. Olaf counter stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Olaf..
Nidalee normally has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Olaf. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Olaf
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Olaf?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Olaf, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Olaf.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Olafas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee 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 allies during teamfights.
Nidalee is a trash counter to Olaf. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Olaf. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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 require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Olaf build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better versus Olaf than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 47.2% when countering Olaf with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Olaf as Nidalee, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Nidalee vs Olaf counters, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Olaf as Nidalee are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.