Olaf vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Olaf
based on 1,322 Olaf vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Olaf vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Olaf vs Leona Counter Build
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Core Olaf Items
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Guide to Countering Leona as Olaf
Tips for Playing as Olaf against Leona
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Advice to Win Against Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Olaf vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Olaf in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Olaf vs. Leona matchup stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between these two champs. Olaf’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Olaf may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Olaf typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Leona. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Olaf and Leona
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Who is Better, Olaf or Leona?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Olaf usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Olaf makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Olaf does have a lower winrate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Olaf also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Olaf into Leona.
Additionally, Olaf has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Olaf vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Olaf is a somewhat poor counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Olaf against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Olaf in order to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Olaf on average accumulates much more CS compared to Leona. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Olaf versus Leona build include Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Death's Dance. When Olaf used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Leona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Olaf boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when countering Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Leona as Olaf, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Olaf vs Leona matchups, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
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