Olaf with Illaoi
How to Synergize Olaf and Illaoi
based on 115 Olaf with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Illaoi
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.
Advice to Understand How Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Olaf Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Olaf sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Illaoi helps Olaf perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf tries to synergize with Illaoi, he gets a moderate decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Illaoi does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played together with Illaoi 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 alongside Illaoi.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Illaoi on the same side, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Olaf in teamfights.
Synergies between Olaf and Illaoi
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no one best companion for Olaf that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Illaoi is a very bad companion for Olaf. By locking into the same side as Olaf, she drops their win rate by -5.5% to 43.5%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Olaf and Illaoi that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Illaoi has a greater difficulty than Olaf. That means Olaf players should be careful when lining up Illaoi allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Olaf players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Olaf and Illaoi together, you may not be giving your other allies much support. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Illaoi teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Olaf in order to pair well with Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Olaf and Illaoi synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Death's Dance. When Olaf included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Illaoi than with many other common item sets. In fact, Olaf boasted an average winrate of 43.5% when playing alongside Illaoi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Illaoi with Olaf are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.