Olaf with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Olaf and Kai'Sa
based on 1,466 Olaf with Kai'Sa pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Kai'Sa
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.
Advice to Understand How Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Olaf Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kai'Sa helps Olaf perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf is an ally to Kai'Sa, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Kai'Sa does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played together with Kai'Sa 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 Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Kai'Sa does a decent job of protecting Olaf during team fights.
Synergies between Olaf and Kai'Sa
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Olaf that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Kai'Sa is a very bad teammate for Olaf. By locking into the same side as Olaf, she drops their win rate by -3.6% to 45.4%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Olaf and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a greater difficulty than Olaf. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Kai'Sa allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, Olaf players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Olaf and Kai'Sa together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Olaf in order to pair well with Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Olaf and Kai'Sa synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Olaf combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Kai'Sa than with most other common builds. In fact, Olaf had an average win rate of 45.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kai'Sa with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.4% winrate overall.
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