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.
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
The stats shown here feature several influential Olaf against Morgana counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. Olaf’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Morgana’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Olaf may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Morgana. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Olaf normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Morgana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Olaf usually fairs equally well when taking on Morgana, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Olaf makes an ok counter for Morgana.
While Olaf does have a higher winrate than Morgana, when on opposite teams, Olaf also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Olaf into Morgana.
Furthermore, Olaf also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Morgana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Olaf vs Morgana matchups, Olaf is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Olaf is a decent counter for Morgana. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Olaf against Morgana.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Olaf to counter Morgana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Olaf typically gets more CS compared to Morgana. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, 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, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Olaf versus Morgana build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Ravenous Hydra. When Olaf bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Morgana than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Olaf boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when playing against Morgana with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Morgana as Olaf, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Olaf vs Morgana clashes, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Morgana as Olaf are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.