Thresh vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Thresh
based on 1,307 Thresh vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Olaf
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several vital Thresh against Olaf matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences between these two champions. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Olaf. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Olaf. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Olaf
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Who is Better, Thresh or Olaf?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when trying to fight Olaf, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes a bad counter to Olaf.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Olaf, when facing one another, Thresh also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Olafas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a lot 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often gets a lot less CS as Olaf. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Thresh versus Olaf build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Olaf than with many other typical builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 48.5% battling Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Olaf as Thresh, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Thresh vs Olaf battles, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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