Sylas vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Sylas
based on 825 Sylas vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Olaf
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Advice to Win Against Olaf
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
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.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
Sylas vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Sylas in LoL
The stats shown here feature some influential Sylas versus Olaf matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Olaf..
Sylas typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Olaf. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Olaf
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Who is Better, Sylas or Olaf?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sylas usually loses when trying to fight Olaf, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Sylas makes a poor counter for Olaf.
While Sylas does have a lower win rate than Olaf, when on opposite teams, Sylas also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Sylas into Olaf.
Moreover, Sylas has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sylas 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 late stage team fights.
Sylas is a somewhat poor counter to Olaf. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Sylas against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sylas 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Sylas versus Olaf build include Everfrost, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Sylas combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Olaf than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 48.1% when countering Olaf with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Olaf as Sylas, Sylas players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Sylas vs Olaf face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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