Ahri vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Ahri
based on 1,005 Ahri vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Olaf
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Olaf
Olaf has reduced defenses from damage during Ragnarok, despite being immune to disables. If you can't escape from Olaf during Ragnarok, try focusing your damage on him with your teammates.
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
Ahri vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Ahri in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several strategic Ahri versus Olaf counter stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Olaf..
Ahri usually has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Olaf. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Olaf
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Who is Better, Ahri or Olaf?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when playing against Olaf, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes an ok counter to Olaf.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Olaf, when facing one another, Ahri also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Olaf.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Olaf.
Other Champion Matchups Against Ahri
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How We Calculated Our Ahri vs Olaf Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ahri to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Olaf. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Ahri versus Olaf build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Olaf than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Olaf with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Olaf as Ahri, Ahri players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ahri vs Olaf counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
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