Thresh with Olaf
How to Synergize Thresh and Olaf
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Thresh Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Olaf
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh 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 fall shows that Olaf helps Thresh perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh is paired with Olaf, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Olaf doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Olaf.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Olaf on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Olaf does a poor job of protecting Thresh in team fights.
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Olaf is a not very good ally for Thresh. By locking into the same side as Thresh, he lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Thresh and Olaf that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Olaf teammates 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 play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Thresh players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Thresh and Olaf together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Olaf ally, you need to focus on increasing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to pair well with Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Thresh and Olaf synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Olaf than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when playing alongside Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 Thresh and Olaf pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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