Zac vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Zac
based on 808 Zac vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Olaf
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Zac in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some influential Zac vs. Olaf counter statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Olaf. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Zac typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Olaf. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zac and Olaf
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Who is Better, Zac or Olaf?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zac usually wins when playing against Olaf, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Zac makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Zac does have a higher win rate compared to Olaf, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Zac into Olafas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zac has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zac vs Olaf matchups, Zac is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zac is a decent counter for Olaf. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zac against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zac to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac usually racks up less CS compared to Olaf. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Zac versus Olaf build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Zac incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Olaf than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zac boasted an average win rate of 51.5% battling Olaf with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Olaf as Zac, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Zac vs Olaf LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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