Olaf vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Olaf
based on 286 Olaf vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Olaf vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Olaf vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Olaf
Tips for Playing as Olaf against Kalista
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Advice to Win Against Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Olaf vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Olaf in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some vital Olaf versus Kalista matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Olaf’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Olaf may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Olaf often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kalista. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Olaf and Kalista
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Who is Better, Olaf or Kalista?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Olaf usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 52.1% win rate. As a result, Olaf makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Olaf does have a higher win rate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Olaf also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Olaf into Kalista.
Moreover, Olaf also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Olaf vs Kalista matchups, Olaf is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Olaf is a good counter for Kalista. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Olaf against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Olaf to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Olaf on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Olaf versus Kalista build include Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Death's Dance. When Olaf bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Olaf had an average win rate of 52.1% when playing against Kalista with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Kalista as Olaf, Olaf players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Olaf vs Kalista face-offs, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kalista as Olaf are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.