Zoe vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Zoe
based on 430 Zoe vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Olaf Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Olaf as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Olaf
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some important Zoe versus Olaf matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Zoe typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Olaf. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Olaf
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Zoe or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually wins when facing off against Olaf, with a 51.2% win rate. As a result, Zoe makes a good counter to Olaf.
While Zoe does have a higher winrate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Zoe into Olaf.
Moreover, Zoe has only a small amount of utility and CC, 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 isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Olaf matchups, Zoe is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zoe is a decent counter for Olaf. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Olaf.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
Additional Information for Zoe Players
How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Olaf Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zoe in order to counter Olaf during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Zoe versus Olaf build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Olaf than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zoe had an average win rate of 51.2% when playing against Olaf with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Olaf as Zoe, Zoe players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Zoe vs Olaf battles, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Olaf as Zoe are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.