Current State of Olaf

Ze Unit·5/27/2015, 11:23:07 AM·1 votes·711 views

I started playing League after Olaf had been super nerfed because Voyboy exploited him in the LCS (the double kill turnaround :O). I played him a couple of times in that time period because I saw a Voyboy stream once were he showed how to build him.

Then Riot did a semi-overhaul of his kit; you lost the passive armour when you activate ult, E scales of AD and autoattacks lower the cooldown etc. I remember trying to play him again, but I couldn't really figure out what his new playstyle was supposed to be; you couldn't really just stack health anymore and be a disruptive tank, but at the same time you couldn't just build Hydra and BotRK because once you activated ult you were squishy. I essentially tossed him aside since then.

I decided to pick him up AGAIN a couple of days ago. I feel like the buff to his ult was one of the best QOL buffs ever, it put him in a really good place now. The recent change to Black Cleaver I feel was almost made for Olaf; you get some health, some CDR and the rage passive works perfectly with axes. You can quite feasibly build him as a bruiser now, going Black Cleaver and then some resistances, or Hydra/BotRK if you are doing really well early, and I feel like Righteous Glory replaces the utility Shurelyas (RIP) provided if you had enough damage dealers on your team or if you are behind.

So, what are people's thoughts about the current state of our friendly neighbourhood viking?

7 Comments

Hasztalan25/27/2015, 2:40:58 PM3 votes

Olaf is still a garabge tier trash useless joke as ever. His rework was a failure, it didn't address any of his problems just made him godlike at abusing the "back-then" actual op fotm items (hint : item 3153 item 3065 item 3143 ) and now that thoose items got nerfed , he is back into top 3 worst champs along with GP.

He builds damage he gets blown up.

He builds tanky he deals no damage and gets blown up.

He builds mixture and he won't deal any damage and will get blown up.

He needs a highly defensive attribute to help him survive until he does anything. He is only good in the first 15 minutes and if u don't snowball like crazy he drops like a pebble in usefulnes.

3TWarrior5/28/2015, 1:47:04 AM2 votes

olaf's biggest issue is that he's designed to get stronger the longer a fight plays out, say against an aatrox or dr mundo, but that doesn't happen in today's meta of get killed in 5 hits or less

Marthian5/27/2015, 4:33:46 PM1 votes

I've seen some successful Olaf's. He's pretty good right now (in fact, very annoying in a meta of CC everywhere.)

COWmanLord5/29/2015, 9:34:56 PM1 votes

I personally have liked and played him for quite awhile, but he gets a lot of hate. I think its in part because of how strong he was before so comparatively he must seem a lot worse.