Kalista with Olaf
How to Synergize Kalista and Olaf
based on 299 Kalista with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kalista Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Olaf
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Olaf. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Olaf helps Kalista perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is paired with Olaf, she sees a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This change may signal that Olaf does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Olaf.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Olaf on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Olaf does a decent job of covering Kalista during team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Olaf
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no perfect synergy for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, Olaf is a superb ally for Kalista. By locking into the same side as Kalista, he increases their win rate by 5.1% to 52.5%. This shows that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Kalista and Olaf that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Kalista. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Olaf allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kalista and Olaf together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Olaf teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Kalista to synergize with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Kalista and Olaf synergy build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista used at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Olaf than with many other common builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when playing alongside Olaf with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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