Syndra vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Syndra
based on 766 Syndra vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Olaf
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Syndra in LoL
The stats shown here feature several vital Syndra vs. Olaf matchup stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Syndra usually has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Olaf. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Syndra and Olaf
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Who is Better, Syndra or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Syndra usually fairs equally well when taking on Olaf, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Syndra makes an ok counter for Olaf.
While Syndra does have a higher win rate compared to Olaf, when they face off with one another, Syndra also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Syndra into Olafas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Syndra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Olaf matchups, Syndra is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Syndra is a decent counter to Olaf. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Syndra against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Syndra to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra usually gets a similar amount of CS as Olaf. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require 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, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Syndra versus Olaf build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Olaf than with many other common builds. In fact, Syndra had an average winrate of 50.4% when playing against Olaf with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Olaf as Syndra, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Syndra vs Olaf fights, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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