Jarvan IV with Olaf
How to Synergize Jarvan IV and Olaf
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Jarvan IV Olaf Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Jarvan IV and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV with Olaf
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
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.
Jarvan IV Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Jarvan IV in LoL
The Jarvan IV 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, Jarvan IV sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Olaf. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Olaf helps Jarvan IV perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jarvan IV tries to synergize with Olaf, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Olaf does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Jarvan IV is played with Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Olaf.
Moreover, when Jarvan IV plays with Olaf on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Olaf does a decent job of covering Jarvan IV in team fights.
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Is Jarvan IV better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no perfect ally for Jarvan IV that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Olaf is a below average ally for Jarvan IV. By locking into the same side as Jarvan IV, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 46.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Jarvan IV and Olaf that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Jarvan IV. That means Jarvan IV players don't need to be very careful when finding Olaf comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Jarvan IV players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Jarvan IV and Olaf together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Olaf teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Jarvan IV to work well with Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Jarvan IV and Olaf synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Olaf than with many other common builds. In fact, Jarvan IV boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when playing alongside Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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