Olaf with Thresh
How to Synergize Olaf and Thresh
based on 1,234 Olaf with Thresh pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Thresh Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Olaf Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Thresh helps Olaf perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf is an ally to Thresh, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Thresh provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played with Thresh on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Thresh.
Additionally, when Olaf plays with Thresh on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Thresh does a decent job of protecting Olaf during teamfights.
Synergies between Olaf and Thresh
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no one best synergy for Olaf that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Thresh is a below average teammate for Olaf. By locking into the same side as Olaf, he drops their win rate by -2.2% to 46.8%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Olaf and Thresh that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Thresh has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means you should be careful when finding Thresh comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Olaf and Thresh together, you may not be giving your team enough AP. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Olaf in order to work well with Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Olaf and Thresh synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Ravenous Hydra. When Olaf incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Thresh than with many other typical builds. In fact, Olaf had an average win rate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Thresh with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Olaf players should take 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 Olaf and Thresh pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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