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.
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
The Olaf Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yasuo helps Olaf perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Olaf tries to synergize with Yasuo, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Yasuo does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played together with Yasuo on the same team, 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 alongside Yasuo.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Yasuo on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of protecting Olaf during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Olaf that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Yasuo is a very typical teammate for Olaf. By locking into the same team as Olaf, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 48.5%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Olaf and Yasuo that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means Olaf players should be cautious when arranging Yasuo comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Olaf and Yasuo together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much support. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Yasuo ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Olaf in order to synergize with Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Olaf and Yasuo synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Death's Dance. When Olaf combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Yasuo than with many other common item sets. In fact, Olaf had an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Yasuo with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Olaf players 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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