Kassadin with Olaf
How to Synergize Kassadin and Olaf
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Kassadin Olaf Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Olaf
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Olaf. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Olaf helps Kassadin perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin plays on the same team as Olaf, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Olaf helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played alongside Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Olaf.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Olaf on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Olaf does a poor job of protecting Kassadin in team fights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Olaf
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no one best ally for Kassadin that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Olaf is a very bad ally for Kassadin. By playing on the same team as Kassadin, he lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 46.3%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Kassadin and Olaf that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Olaf comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kassadin and Olaf together, you may not be giving your team a lot of support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Olaf teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Kassadin in order to work well with Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kassadin and Olaf synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Olaf than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 46.3% helping carry Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.3% win rate overall.
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