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Olaf

Strongest when games end at 35–40 minutes (55%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+312 gold).

Win rate: 51.0%; ±3.1 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #29 of 95
Pick rate: 5.3%; ban 6.4%
Games: 1,022; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Olaf top wins 51.0% of 1,022 ranked games, rank 29 of 95 top champions (tier B). Most players finish Stridebreaker first, at about 13:06.

The build at a glance

What most Olaf players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 12:12 · 73% of games

Item 1

Stridebreaker 13:12 · 50% · 496 games

Item 2

Experimental Hexplate 19:43 · 69% · 270 games

Item 3

Death's Dance 25:22 · 84% · 133 games

Item 4

Maw of Malmortius 30:06 · 38% · 12 games

Item 5 · late game

Lord Dominik's Regards 29:18 · 5 of 43 games

Runes

Conqueror · Precision + Inspiration 22% of games · 47% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 71% of games · 50% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ghost 42% of games · 50% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Undertow first 90% of games · 50% wins Skill orders →

When Olaf wins

Best when games end at 35–40′

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′52% wins42% of games · 428

Lasts 25′ or more50% wins57% of games · 586

Lanes

Watch out for Ambessa, Corki, Tryndamere

Hard Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Olaf games

First Baron: 82% against 32%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 32% 82% +50

First tower 30% 69% +40

Rift Herald 37% 68% +31

First dragon 39% 63% +24

First blood 43% 59% +17

First Voidgrubs 44% 58% +13

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Olaf plays

More multikills, more solo kills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average top laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More multikills a game0.60 against 0.41 · +46%

More solo kills a game2.7 against 2.1 · +31%

Fewer assists a game4.1 against 5.2 · −21%

About average: minions, share of team damage, deaths, vision, time spent dead, damage, control wards, kill participation.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~12:48

Item 2done ~19:30

Item 3done ~24:36

Item 4done ~28:30

Item 5done ~31:24

Most common full builds

Plated Steelcaps › Stridebreaker › Experimental Hexplate › Death's Dance 56.4%101 games

Experimental Hexplate › Plated Steelcaps › Stridebreaker › Death's Dance 64.4%45 games

Ravenous Hydra › Plated Steelcaps › Experimental Hexplate › Death's Dance 70.4%27 games

Plated Steelcaps › Stridebreaker › Death's Dance › Experimental Hexplate 76.5%17 games

Ravenous Hydra › Plated Steelcaps › Experimental Hexplate › Fiendhunter Bolts 75.0%16 games

Stridebreaker › Plated Steelcaps › Maw of Malmortius › Death's Dance 37.5%16 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Sundered Sky 100%5

Mortal Reminder 64%11

Maw of Malmortius 61%67

Sterak's Gage 60%10

Experimental Hexplate 56%115

Stridebreaker 54%46

Death's Dance 52%142

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Blade + Health Potion50.1%726

Doran's Helm + Health Potion56.2%162

Doran's Shield + Health Potion51.2%80

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~12:1251.5%743

Boots of Swiftness ~12:1263.3%60

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~11:3042.6%54

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost49.9%425

Exhaust + Flash50.2%295

Flash + Ignite51.7%234

Skills

Max

W50.1%917

Max

W59.1%93

Start

W51.4%630

Start

E51.9%208

Hard lanes

Watch out for Ambessa, Corki, Tryndamere

Easy lanes

Good into Jayce, Jax, Garen

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 29 of 38, wins 21 of them

Expected: what Olaf's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (22)

Gragas 67% · 9

Kayle 13% · 8

Udyr 38% · 8

Aatrox 38% · 8

Varus 25% · 8

Gwen 50% · 8

Yorick 38% · 8

Dr. Mundo 14% · 7

Poppy 43% · 7

Vladimir 86% · 7

Warwick 33% · 6

Wukong 60% · 5

Rek'Sai 25% · 4

Cassiopeia 75% · 4

Anivia 50% · 4

Sylas 75% · 4

Ryze 33% · 3

Aurora 33% · 3

Twisted Fate 33% · 3

Maokai 100% · 3

Viego 67% · 3

Quinn 67% · 3

Olaf vs Jayce · 89 games · Solid sample

Olaf does better than expected here

62%winsexpected 52%

+249gold at 15′average +312

−0.7minions at 10′ahead or behind

20%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.70 a game

Gold lead against Jayce Olaf's average lead

Against Jayce, Olaf is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 57% of games and wins 64% of those. When behind, Olaf wins 58%.

Ahead at 15′64% wins50 games

Behind at 15′58% wins38 games

Full Olaf vs Jayce page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Olaf games: Rengar, Aurora, Tristana, Rell

Enemy jungle Trouble

Rengar24% · exp. 48% −2425 games

Kindred25% · exp. 47% −2224 games

Xin Zhao26% · exp. 49% −2219 games

Easier

Shaco65% · exp. 46% +1917 games

Elise58% · exp. 49% +931 games

Qiyana56% · exp. 49% +857 games

Enemy mid Trouble

Aurora35% · exp. 50% −1623 games

Zed41% · exp. 51% −1027 games

Akshan40% · exp. 50% −1020 games

Easier

Ekko65% · exp. 48% +1723 games

Akali64% · exp. 52% +1328 games

Kassadin67% · exp. 55% +1215 games

Enemy bot Trouble

Tristana37% · exp. 49% −1371 games

Miss Fortune31% · exp. 50% −1916 games

Corki35% · exp. 50% −1523 games

Easier

Lucian65% · exp. 51% +1437 games

Kai'Sa61% · exp. 52% +1057 games

Jinx58% · exp. 50% +960 games

Enemy support Trouble

Rell36% · exp. 48% −1247 games

Soraka38% · exp. 52% −1421 games

Milio42% · exp. 52% −1019 games

Easier

Camille86% · exp. 58% +2822 games

Janna64% · exp. 50% +1422 games

Leona58% · exp. 50% +953 games

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most top laners

Before 14 minutes Olaf dies 2.6 times a game (average 2.4). 41% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 40% for the average top laner. 51% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.6deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.4)

41%involve the enemy junglerabout average (40%)

49%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (49%)

85%with no teammate nearabout average (83%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Olaf dies before 14 minutes

Ganked in their half of top lane, collapsed on in your half of top lane

Ganks: 40% in their half of top lane. Collapses: 40% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 50% in their half of top lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average top laner

What kills Olaf

Kind of death

Olaf Average

Gank 41% (avg 40%)Collapse 8% (avg 9%)1-v-1 51% (avg 51%)

Who gets the kill

Olaf Average

Bot laner 2% (avg 2%)Jungler 25% (avg 24%)Support 2% (avg 2%)Mid laner 8% (avg 7%)Top laner 63% (avg 63%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00–5:00 and 6:00–10:00, then every minute

Olaf Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 6:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Olaf; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Olaf wins fights

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.2 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.5 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.9 kills per death.

Their half of top lane 1.2 K/D 1470 / 1194

Your half of top lane 0.5 K/D 559 / 1122

The top-side river 1.0 K/D 167 / 167

Their jungle 1.3 K/D 101 / 77

Your jungle 1.0 K/D 64 / 62

Their half of bot lane 2.0 K/D 47 / 24

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Olaf wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 17% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 69% when Olaf is there and 71% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 16:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 50%; for Olaf it is 51% against 51%.

Olaf

What most Olaf players run

Best when games end at 35–40′

Watch out for Ambessa, Corki, Tryndamere

First Baron: 82% against 32%

More multikills, more solo kills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

Watch out for Ambessa, Corki, Tryndamere

Good into Jayce, Jax, Garen

Ahead at 15 against 29 of 38, wins 21 of them

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Enemies that cost Olaf games: Rengar, Aurora, Tristana, Rell

Teammates that change Olaf's games

Dies about as often as most top laners

Ganked in their half of top lane, collapsed on in your half of top lane

What kills Olaf

Ganks come at 3:00–5:00 and 6:00–10:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of top lane

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid