Akshan vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Akshan
based on 631 Akshan vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Olaf
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several critical Akshan vs. Olaf counter stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Olaf..
Akshan normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their counter does. On average, they takes less damage than Olaf. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Akshan or Olaf?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually wins when taking on Olaf, with a 55.0% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a great counter for Olaf.
While Akshan does have a much higher winrate compared to Olaf, when facing one another, Akshan also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Akshan into Olaf.
Furthermore, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Olaf matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Akshan is a great counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to counter Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Akshan versus Olaf build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan used at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better countering Olaf than with most other typical builds. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 55.0% when countering Olaf with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Olaf as Akshan, Akshan players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Akshan vs Olaf fights, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 55.0% winrate overall.
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