Heimerdinger vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Heimerdinger
based on 535 Heimerdinger vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Olaf
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some valuable Heimerdinger against Olaf counter stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Olaf..
Heimerdinger typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Olaf. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Olaf
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Olaf?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Olaf, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Heimerdinger makes an ok counter for Olaf.
While Heimerdinger does have a lower winrate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Heimerdinger into Olafas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Heimerdinger has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Heimerdinger is a somewhat poor counter to Olaf. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Heimerdinger against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to counter Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Heimerdinger versus Olaf build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Olaf than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 49.5% when countering Olaf with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Olaf as Heimerdinger, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Heimerdinger vs Olaf matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Olaf as Heimerdinger are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.