Viktor vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Viktor
based on 499 Viktor vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Olaf
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Viktor in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several critical Viktor against Olaf counter statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Viktor typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Olaf. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Viktor and Olaf
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Who is Better, Viktor or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Viktor usually loses when trying to fight Olaf, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Viktor makes a bad counter for Olaf.
While Viktor does have a lower win rate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Viktor also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Viktor into Olafas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Viktor also has only a small 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Viktor 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 allies during teamfights.
Viktor is a somewhat poor counter for Olaf. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Viktor against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Viktor to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Olaf. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Viktor versus Olaf build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Olaf than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Viktor boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Olaf with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Olaf as Viktor, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Viktor vs Olaf counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Olaf as Viktor are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.