Olaf vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Olaf
based on 391 Olaf vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Olaf vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Olaf vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Olaf
Tips for Playing as Olaf against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Olaf vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Olaf in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some significant Olaf vs. Zilean counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between the pair. Olaf’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Olaf may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zilean. This observation is largely a result of the differences in killsdeaths.
Olaf often has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zilean. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Olaf and Zilean
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Who is Better, Olaf or Zilean?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Olaf usually loses when taking on Zilean, with a 45.3% win rate. Thus, Olaf makes a poor counter to Zilean.
While Olaf does have a much lower win rate compared to Zilean, when on opposite teams, Olaf also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Olaf into Zilean.
Furthermore, Olaf has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Olaf vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a much lower 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 bad counter to Zilean. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Olaf against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Olaf to counter Zilean during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Olaf on average racks up more CS compared to Zilean. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Olaf versus Zilean build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Ravenous Hydra. When Olaf combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Olaf boasted an average win rate of 45.3% when countering Zilean with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Zilean as Olaf, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Olaf vs Zilean matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.3% winrate overall.
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