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.
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
The Olaf Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ryze. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ryze helps Olaf perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Olaf plays on the same team as Ryze, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Ryze does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played alongside Ryze on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ryze.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Ryze on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Ryze does a poor job of covering Olaf in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Olaf that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Ryze is a very typical ally for Olaf. By being on the same team as Olaf, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 49.7%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Olaf and Ryze that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Ryze has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means you should be very careful when lining up Ryze teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Olaf players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Olaf and Ryze together, you may not be providing your other allies much cover. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Ryze teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Olaf in order to synergize with Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Olaf and Ryze synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Ravenous Hydra. When Olaf included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Ryze than with most other common builds. In fact, Olaf boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing alongside Ryze with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Olaf players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Ryze with Olaf are given for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.