Shyvana vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Shyvana
based on 464 Shyvana vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Olaf
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Shyvana in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several critical Shyvana versus Olaf counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Olaf..
Shyvana typically has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Olaf. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shyvana and Olaf
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Olaf?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shyvana usually fairs equally well when playing against Olaf, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Shyvana makes an ok counter for Olaf.
While Shyvana does have a higher winrate compared to Olaf, when they face off with one another, Shyvana also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shyvana into Olaf.
Additionally, Shyvana has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Olaf matchups, Shyvana is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Shyvana is a decent counter to Olaf. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Shyvana against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana in order to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana typically gets less CS compared to Olaf. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Shyvana versus Olaf build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Olaf than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shyvana had an average winrate of 50.4% when playing against Olaf with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Olaf as Shyvana, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Shyvana vs Olaf counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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