Olaf with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Olaf and Rek'Sai
based on 122 Olaf with Rek'Sai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Olaf Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rek'Sai helps Olaf perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf is an ally to Rek'Sai, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Rek'Sai provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played with Rek'Sai 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 synergisticly with Rek'Sai.
Additionally, when Olaf plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Rek'Sai does a decent job of protecting Olaf during teamfights.
Synergies between Olaf and Rek'Sai
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Olaf that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Rek'Sai is a terrible companion for Olaf. By playing on the same team as Olaf, he lowers their win rate by -4.7% to 44.3%. This proves that there is a terrible synergy between Olaf and Rek'Sai that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a lower difficulty than Olaf. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Rek'Sai teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Olaf and Rek'Sai together, you may not be providing your team very much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Rek'Sai ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Olaf to work well with Rek'Sai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Olaf and Rek'Sai synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Death's Dance. When Olaf included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Rek'Sai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Olaf had an average winrate of 44.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rek'Sai with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating 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 rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.3% winrate overall.
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