Nocturne vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Nocturne
based on 1,958 Nocturne vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Olaf
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
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.
Nocturne vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Nocturne in LoL
The stats provided here feature several valuable Nocturne versus Olaf counter stats that may help us understand the differences between the two. Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Olaf..
Nocturne usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Olaf. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Olaf?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when playing against Olaf, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Nocturne does have a higher winrate than Olaf, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nocturne into Olaf.
Furthermore, Nocturne has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Olaf matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nocturne is a decent counter to Olaf. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne typically racks up a lot less CS relative to Olaf. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nocturne versus Olaf build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Olaf than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 51.7% when countering Olaf with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Olaf as Nocturne, Nocturne players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Nocturne vs Olaf counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Olaf as Nocturne are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.