Amumu vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Amumu
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Amumu vs Olaf Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Amumu
Tips for Playing as Amumu against Olaf
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Amumu in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some important Amumu against Olaf matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Amumu usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Olaf. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Amumu or Olaf?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Amumu usually loses when trying to fight Olaf, with a 46.0% win rate. Thus, Amumu makes a bad counter to Olaf.
While Amumu does have a lower win rate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Amumu also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Amumu into Olaf.
Furthermore, Amumu has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Amumu vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Amumu is a garbage counter to Olaf. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Amumu in order to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu typically racks up a lot less CS as Olaf. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Amumu versus Olaf build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Olaf than with many other typical builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 46.0% battling Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Olaf as Amumu, Amumu players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Amumu vs Olaf battles, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.0% winrate overall.
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