Skarner vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Skarner
based on 131 Skarner vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Skarner vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Skarner vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Skarner
Tips for Playing as Skarner against Olaf
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Skarner in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some strategic Skarner against Olaf counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Skarner’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, showing that Skarner may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Skarner normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Olaf. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Skarner and Olaf
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Who is Better, Skarner or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Skarner usually loses when facing off against Olaf, with a 44.3% win rate. As a result, Skarner makes a poor counter for Olaf.
While Skarner does have a much lower win rate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Skarner also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Skarner into Olaf.
Furthermore, Skarner also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. 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 Skarner vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Skarner is a terribly counter for Olaf. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Skarner against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Skarner to counter Olaf during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Skarner often picks up a lot less CS relative to Olaf. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Skarner versus Olaf build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Olaf than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 44.3% battling Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Olaf as Skarner, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Skarner vs Olaf fights, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.3% winrate overall.
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