Olaf vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Olaf
based on 754 Olaf vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Olaf vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Olaf vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Olaf
Tips for Playing as Olaf against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Olaf vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Olaf in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some significant Olaf vs. Soraka matchup stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Olaf’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Olaf may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Olaf often has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Soraka. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Olaf and Soraka
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Who is Better, Olaf or Soraka?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Olaf usually loses when taking on Soraka, with a 45.5% win rate. Thus, Olaf makes a bad counter for Soraka.
While Olaf does have a much lower winrate compared to Soraka, when they face off with one another, Olaf also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Olaf into Soraka.
Additionally, Olaf has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Olaf vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Olaf is a terribly counter for Soraka. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Olaf against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Olaf to counter Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Olaf typically accumulates much more CS compared to Soraka. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Olaf versus Soraka build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Death's Dance, and Stridebreaker. When Olaf bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Soraka than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Olaf had an average winrate of 45.5% when countering Soraka with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Soraka as Olaf, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Olaf vs Soraka LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.5% win rate overall.
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