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.
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several critical Olaf vs. Vladimir matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Olaf’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vladimir’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Olaf may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vladimir..
Olaf typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Vladimir. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Olaf usually loses when playing against Vladimir, with a 45.3% win rate. Thus, Olaf makes a bad counter to Vladimir.
While Olaf does have a much lower winrate compared to Vladimir, when facing one another, Olaf also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Olaf into Vladimir.
Moreover, Olaf also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vladimir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Olaf vs Vladimir matchups, Vladimir is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Olaf is a trash counter for Vladimir. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Olaf against Vladimir.
If you would like to truly master Olaf to counter Vladimir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Olaf usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Vladimir. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Olaf versus Vladimir build consist of Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Stridebreaker. When Olaf combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Vladimir than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Olaf had an average win rate of 45.3% battling Vladimir with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Vladimir as Olaf, Olaf players should use 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 we have analyed for Olaf vs Vladimir battles, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.3% winrate overall.
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