Vladimir vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Vladimir
based on 902 Vladimir vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vladimir vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Vladimir vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Vladimir against Olaf
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Vladimir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some critical Vladimir vs. Olaf counter statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between these two champs. Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Vladimir often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Olaf. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vladimir and Olaf
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Who is Better, Vladimir or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vladimir usually wins when trying to fight Olaf, with a 54.7% win rate. Thus, Vladimir makes a great counter to Olaf.
While Vladimir does have a much higher winrate compared to Olaf, when on opposite teams, Vladimir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Vladimir into Olafas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vladimir has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs Olaf matchups, Vladimir is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Vladimir is a great counter to Olaf. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vladimir against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vladimir in order to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Olaf. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Vladimir versus Olaf build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Vladimir incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Olaf than with most other typical builds. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average winrate of 54.7% battling Olaf with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Olaf as Vladimir, Vladimir players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Vladimir vs Olaf fights, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.7% win rate overall.
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