Gwen with Olaf
How to Synergize Gwen and Olaf
based on 239 Gwen with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Olaf
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Olaf. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Olaf helps Gwen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gwen is paired with Olaf, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This may signal that Olaf does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played alongside Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Olaf.
Moreover, when Gwen plays with Olaf on the same team, she on average takes more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Olaf does a poor job of covering Gwen during team fights.
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no top champion pairing for Gwen that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Olaf is a terrible ally for Gwen. By locking into the same side as Gwen, he drops their win rate by -3.7% to 44.4%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Gwen and Olaf that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Gwen. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Olaf allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Gwen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Gwen and Olaf together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of crowd control. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gwen to synergize with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Gwen and Olaf synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Gwen used at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Olaf than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gwen boasted an average winrate of 44.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Olaf with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Gwen and Olaf pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.4% win rate overall.
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