Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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 stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some significant Trundle vs. Olaf matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences between the two. For instance, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Olaf..
Trundle normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Olaf. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Trundle usually wins when trying to fight Olaf, with a 57.7% win rate. Thus, Trundle makes a fantastic counter for Olaf.
While Trundle does have a much higher win rate than Olaf, when on opposite teams, Trundle also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Trundle into Olaf.
Moreover, Trundle has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Olaf matchups, Trundle is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Trundle is a great counter for Olaf. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Trundle against Olaf.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Trundle in order to counter Olaf during both the lane 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 mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Olaf. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Trundle versus Olaf build consist of Trinity Force, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Trundle combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Olaf than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Trundle had an average win rate of 57.7% battling Olaf with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Olaf as Trundle, Trundle players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Trundle vs Olaf counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 57.7% win rate overall.
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