Alistar with Olaf
How to Synergize Alistar and Olaf
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Alistar Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Olaf
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Alistar Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Olaf. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Olaf helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is an ally to Olaf, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Olaf supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Olaf on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Olaf.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Olaf on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Alistar during teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Olaf
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no top synergy for Alistar that will always be his ideal ally. However, Olaf is a below average ally for Alistar. By playing on the same team as Alistar, he decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 47.8%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Alistar and Olaf that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be cautious when arranging Olaf allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Alistar and Olaf together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Olaf teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to work well with Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Alistar and Olaf synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Olaf than with many other common builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 47.8% when playing alongside Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Alistar and Olaf pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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