Brand with Olaf
How to Synergize Brand and Olaf
based on 2,117 Brand with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Olaf Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Brand with Olaf
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Brand in LoL
The Brand Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Brand sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Olaf. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Olaf helps Brand perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand plays on the same team as Olaf, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This change could signal that Olaf does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played with Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Olaf.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Olaf on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Brand in team fights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Brand that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Olaf is a very typical ally for Brand. By being on the same team as Brand, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 51.3%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Brand and Olaf that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Brand. That means Brand players don't need to be very careful when arranging Olaf allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Brand and Olaf together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Olaf ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Brand in order to pair well with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Brand and Olaf synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Olaf than with many other typical builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 51.3% helping carry Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Olaf with Brand are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.