Riven vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Riven
based on 983 Riven vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Olaf
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several strategic Riven versus Olaf matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Olaf..
Riven often has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Olaf. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Olaf
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Who is Better, Riven or Olaf?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually loses when playing against Olaf, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a bad counter to Olaf.
While Riven does have a lower winrate compared to Olaf, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Riven into Olafas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Riven is a bad counter for Olaf. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Riven against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Olaf 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 listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Riven versus Olaf build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Olaf than with many other typical builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 47.8% when countering Olaf with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Olaf as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Riven vs Olaf counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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