Vel'Koz vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Vel'Koz
based on 676 Vel'Koz vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Olaf
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown here feature some strategic Vel'Koz vs. Olaf matchup stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Olaf. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Vel'Koz usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Olaf. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Olaf
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Olaf?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when taking on Olaf, with a 53.4% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes a great counter for Olaf.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vel'Koz into Olafas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Vel'Koz vs Olaf matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Vel'Koz is a great counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz most often accumulates less CS compared to Olaf. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling 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 do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Vel'Koz versus Olaf build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Olaf than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 53.4% when countering Olaf with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Olaf as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Vel'Koz vs Olaf counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.4% win rate overall.
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