Vayne vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Vayne
based on 1,844 Vayne vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Olaf
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several strategic Vayne against Olaf counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between these two champions. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Vayne typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Olaf. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Olaf
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Who is Better, Vayne or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually wins when trying to fight Olaf, with a 52.3% win rate. Thus, Vayne makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Vayne does have a higher win rate compared to Olaf, when on opposite teams, Vayne also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vayne into Olafas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne also has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Olaf matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Vayne is a good counter to Olaf. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vayne against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vayne in order to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn 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 significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Vayne versus Olaf build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Vayne included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Olaf than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Vayne had an average winrate of 52.3% when countering Olaf with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Olaf as Vayne, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Vayne vs Olaf face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.3% win rate overall.
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