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.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several strategic Olaf against Rumble matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between this set of champions. Olaf’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Olaf may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rumble..
Olaf often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Rumble. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Olaf usually loses when facing off against Rumble, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Olaf makes a bad counter for Rumble.
While Olaf does have a lower win rate than Rumble, when facing one another, Olaf also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Olaf into Rumble.
Additionally, Olaf also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Olaf vs Rumble matchups, Rumble 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 bad counter to Rumble. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Olaf against Rumble.
To truly master Olaf to counter Rumble during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Olaf often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Rumble. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Olaf versus Rumble build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Ravenous Hydra. When Olaf combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Rumble than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Olaf had an average winrate of 47.9% when countering Rumble with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Rumble as Olaf, Olaf players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Olaf vs Rumble counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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