Akali with Olaf
How to Synergize Akali and Olaf
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Akali Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Akali with Olaf
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Akali Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Akali in LoL
The Akali Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Olaf. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Olaf helps Akali perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali plays on the same team as Olaf, she observes a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Olaf does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Olaf.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Olaf on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Akali during team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no top companion for Akali that will always be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Olaf is a below average companion for Akali. By locking into the same side as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Akali and Olaf that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be careful when finding Olaf allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Akali and Olaf together, you may not be giving your other allies enough utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Olaf ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akali to work well with Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Akali and Olaf synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Akali incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Olaf than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Olaf with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Akali players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Olaf with Akali are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.