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.
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
The Olaf Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Olaf sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Janna. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Janna helps Olaf perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf tries to synergize with Janna, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Janna provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played with Janna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Janna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Janna.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Janna on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Janna does a decent job of covering Olaf in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Olaf that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Janna is a decent teammate for Olaf. By locking into the same side as Olaf, she increases their win rate by 2.5% to 51.5%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Olaf and Janna that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Janna has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means Olaf players need to be careful when finding Janna allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Olaf players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Olaf and Janna together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Janna teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Olaf in order to synergize with Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Olaf and Janna synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Ravenous Hydra, and Death's Dance. When Olaf combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Janna than with most other common item sets. In fact, Olaf boasted an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Olaf players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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