Veigar vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Veigar
based on 1,367 Veigar vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Olaf
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several strategic Veigar versus Olaf counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Olaf..
Veigar usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Olaf. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Olaf
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Who is Better, Veigar or Olaf?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually loses when trying to fight Olaf, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Veigar makes a poor counter to Olaf.
While Veigar does have a lower winrate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Veigar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Veigar into Olafas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Veigar 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 trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Veigar 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 team members during teamfights.
Veigar is a terribly counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Veigar against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Veigar to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Olaf. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Olaf build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Veigar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Olaf than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average win rate of 47.8% battling Olaf with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Olaf as Veigar, Veigar 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 builds players used for Veigar vs Olaf battles, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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