Olaf with Samira
How to Synergize Olaf and Samira
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Olaf Samira Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Samira
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Samira
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.
Olaf Samira Synergy Stats
How to Play with Samira as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Samira helps Olaf perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Olaf tries to synergize with Samira, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Samira does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played with Samira on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Samira.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Samira on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Samira does a decent job of covering Olaf in teamfights.
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Samira?
There is no ideal companion for Olaf that will always be his best synergy. However, Samira is a relatively poor companion for Olaf. By being on the same team as Olaf, she lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 47.2%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Olaf and Samira that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Samira has a greater difficulty than Olaf. That means Olaf players must be cautious when arranging Samira allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Olaf and Samira together, you will not be granting your other allies very much support. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Samira ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Olaf to pair well with Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Olaf and Samira synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Death's Dance. When Olaf included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Samira than with many other common builds. In fact, Olaf boasted an average winrate of 47.2% helping carry Samira with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.2% win rate overall.
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