Taliyah vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Taliyah
based on 365 Taliyah vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Olaf
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Advice to Win Against Olaf
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.
Taliyah vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Taliyah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some significant Taliyah vs. Olaf matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Olaf. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Taliyah often has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Olaf. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taliyah and Olaf
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Olaf?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually fairs equally well when facing off against Olaf, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Taliyah makes an ok counter for Olaf.
While Taliyah does have a higher win rate than Olaf, when on opposite teams, Taliyah also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Taliyah into Olaf.
Furthermore, Taliyah has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Olaf matchups, Taliyah is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Taliyah is a decent counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Taliyah against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Taliyah versus Olaf build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Olaf than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average win rate of 50.7% when countering Olaf with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Olaf as Taliyah, Taliyah players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Taliyah vs Olaf fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Olaf as Taliyah are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.