Nilah vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Nilah
based on 578 Nilah vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nilah vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Nilah vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Nilah
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.
Nilah vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Nilah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some influential Nilah versus Olaf matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Olaf..
Nilah often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. On average, they receives less damage than Olaf. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nilah and Olaf
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Who is Better, Nilah or Olaf?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nilah usually wins when facing off against Olaf, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Nilah makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Nilah does have a higher win rate compared to Olaf, when on opposite teams, Nilah also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nilah into Olafas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nilah 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Olaf matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nilah is an above average counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nilah against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nilah in order 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Nilah versus Olaf build include Bloodthirster, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Nilah included at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better versus Olaf than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nilah had an average winrate of 52.6% battling Olaf with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Olaf as Nilah, Nilah players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Nilah vs Olaf counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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