Ezreal vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Ezreal
based on 2,079 Ezreal vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ezreal vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Ezreal vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Ezreal
Tips for Playing as Ezreal against Olaf
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Ezreal in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several important Ezreal versus Olaf matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Ezreal’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ezreal may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Ezreal typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Olaf. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ezreal and Olaf
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Who is Better, Ezreal or Olaf?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ezreal usually fairs equally well when taking on Olaf, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Ezreal makes an ok counter for Olaf.
While Ezreal does have a lower winrate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Ezreal also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ezreal into Olafas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ezreal also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ezreal vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ezreal is a somewhat poor counter for Olaf. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ezreal against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ezreal to counter Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ezreal most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Olaf. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Ezreal versus Olaf build consist of Muramana, Trinity Force, and Spear of Shojin. When Ezreal incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Olaf than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ezreal had an average win rate of 49.5% battling Olaf with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Olaf as Ezreal, Ezreal players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Ezreal vs Olaf fights, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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