Nunu & Willump vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Nunu & Willump
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Nunu & Willump vs Olaf Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Olaf
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team 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.
Nunu & Willump vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some significant Nunu & Willump versus Olaf matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences between these two champions. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Olaf. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Olaf?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually fairs equally well when facing off against Olaf, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes an ok counter to Olaf.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower winrate than Olaf, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nunu & Willump into Olaf.
Furthermore, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a somewhat poor counter to Olaf. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nunu & Willump against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Olaf. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require 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, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Olaf build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Olaf than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average win rate of 49.6% battling Olaf with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Olaf as Nunu & Willump, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Nunu & Willump vs Olaf counters, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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