Olaf with Talon
How to Synergize Olaf and Talon
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Olaf Talon Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Talon
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Olaf Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Talon helps Olaf perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf is an ally to Talon, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could signal that Talon helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played alongside Talon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Talon.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Talon on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Talon does a poor job of covering Olaf during team fights.
Synergies between Olaf and Talon
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Talon?
There is no ideal companion for Olaf that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Talon is a relatively poor teammate for Olaf. By locking into the same team as Olaf, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 47.0%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Olaf and Talon that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Talon has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means you need to be cautious when finding Talon allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Olaf players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Olaf and Talon together, you may not be providing your team enough AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Talon teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Olaf in order to work well with Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Olaf and Talon synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Stridebreaker. When Olaf included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Talon than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Olaf had an average win rate of 47.0% helping carry Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 combinations players chose for Olaf and Talon pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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