Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Olaf. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Olaf helps Lissandra perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra plays on the same team as Olaf, she sees a small increase in her total damage output. This difference could signal that Olaf helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played alongside Olaf on the same side, 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 with Olaf.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Olaf on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Lissandra during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Lissandra that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Olaf is a decent ally for Lissandra. By playing on the same team as Lissandra, he raises their win rate by 2.4% to 51.9%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Lissandra and Olaf that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players don't need to be cautious when lining up Olaf comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Lissandra and Olaf together, you probably will not be providing your team very much crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Olaf teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order to pair well with Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Lissandra and Olaf synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Lissandra bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Olaf than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Olaf with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Lissandra players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.9% winrate overall.
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