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.
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
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.
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.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some influential Vayne against Olaf matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences between the two. Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Vayne usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Olaf. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vayne usually fairs equally well when taking on Olaf, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Vayne makes an ok counter to 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 champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious 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 has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Olaf matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Vayne is a decent counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vayne against Olaf.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vayne to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Vayne versus Olaf build consist of Kraken Slayer, Phantom Dancer, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Vayne included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Olaf than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Vayne boasted an average winrate of 50.2% battling Olaf with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Olaf as Vayne, Vayne players should use 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 combinations we have analyed for Vayne vs Olaf counters, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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