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.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several critical Olaf against Sett counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Olaf’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sett’s ratio of NaN, showing that Olaf may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sett..
Olaf typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Sett. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Olaf usually loses when taking on Sett, with a 45.5% win rate. As a result, Olaf makes a poor counter for Sett.
While Olaf does have a much lower win rate compared to Sett, when they face off with one another, Olaf also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Olaf into Sett.
Additionally, Olaf has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sett. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Olaf vs Sett matchups, Sett is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Olaf is a terribly counter for Sett. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Olaf against Sett.
To truly master Olaf to counter Sett 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 mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Olaf usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Sett. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Olaf versus Sett build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Ravenous Hydra. When Olaf used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Sett than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Olaf had an average win rate of 45.5% when playing against Sett with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Sett 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 runes players picked for Olaf vs Sett fights, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.5% win rate overall.
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