Olaf has reduced defenses from damage during Ragnarok, despite being immune to disables. If you can't escape from Olaf during Ragnarok, try focusing your damage on him with your teammates.
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
The stats shown on this page highlight several influential Qiyana against Olaf matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between this set of champions. Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Olaf..
Qiyana normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Olaf. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Qiyana usually loses when taking on Olaf, with a 46.5% win rate. Therefore, Qiyana makes a bad counter for Olaf.
While Qiyana does have a lower win rate compared to Olaf, when facing one another, Qiyana also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Qiyana into Olafas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Qiyana has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Qiyana vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Qiyana is a bad counter for Olaf. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Qiyana against Olaf.
If you would like to truly master Qiyana to counter Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Olaf. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Qiyana versus Olaf build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Qiyana used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Olaf than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Qiyana had an average win rate of 46.5% when countering Olaf with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Olaf as Qiyana, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Qiyana vs Olaf counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.5% winrate overall.
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