What should I do when Olaf pops ult and ghost?

An Undead brat··2 votes·1,466 views

Serious question. I have no idea.

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Wild Wes12 votes

Die

Best princess EU1 votes

JarvanIV saved me

Wild Wes1 votes

JarvanIV Hi I'm Jarvan and I'm helping

Arakadia1 votes

You beat me to it.

Handin Out Naps10 votes

Same tactic as when you see Rengar ulting. Open shop and look at what you are going to buy next.

BIackfox5 votes

Kill him in 3 hits with vayne

Penns4 votes

Play an adc and use your op powers to 4 shot him Kappa

Irelia Bot2 votes

That actually worked though

Penns1 votes

I mean, if youre playing Vayne it might lol, but other than that..

Best princess EU1 votes

Twitch Caitlyn Jinx

Jinzo Torrance2 votes

Pray

For Mercy

Ralanr2 votes

Depends on the area. Are you in the jungle? If you have mobility or flash, use it to get between a wall since he'll have to go around it. Out in the open? Idk, it's a tricky thing to deal with.

An Undead brat5 votes

Thanks, I'll flash everytime, good thing it's on lower CD than his ult and Ghost.

Ralanr1 votes

Hey man, I was trying to offer advice. I didn't say it was perfect. Olaf's ult is one of those difficult things to play around. The best defense against the combo is being able to predict when he'll do it and not get into a situation where he'll most likely use it.

An Undead brat1 votes

I know, sorry, I'm just a little bit salty lol

Ralanr1 votes

It's all good man. I understand salt. Happens to the best of us.

Irelia Bot2 votes

Use J4 ult

duh

TyrekGoldenspear1 votes

This. Give olaf a demacian timeout.

woodvsmurph1 votes

JarvanIV : uses j4 ult, stands in ult, dies. But you said... or Olaf : summoner 6 summoner 4 -- enemy team: crap*[zombie-brand-facepalm]*

Aptest2 votes

actually it is:

JarvanIV : R [Olaf] -> E+Q (out of arena).

then olaf gets to spend his ult in a cage, and have his little temper tantrum with nobody to play with.

yours ADC should be able to take care of Olaf once you do dhtat

woodvsmurph1 votes

I know. I was hoping my brand facepalm and the suggestion that someone would actually go ghost flash olaf would make it obvious i'm not being serious with that post. clearly i need to try harder to make it obvious though

Oglaf2 votes

summoner 3 him.

Ulquiorra9952 votes

Open the shop. MIght as well save some time.

Nakoruru2 votes

You change your stance to offensive and yell at him: "ARrrrrr!". Olaves are wild, they can smell your fear. Open your arms wide to take more space. After several seconds you should press Recall. Don't turn your back on him or he'll axe you to death!

Dicho1 votes

Depends on who you're playing. Guessing by your name that you're a zyra main Mage's only hope is to separate the maximum amount of distance between you and Olaf. Movement speed helps - swiftness boots, etc. Dodge his axes - his slow can easily catch you and melt you There's always a last resort - banning him lol

An Undead brat2 votes

I'm glad you guessed that. I tried every one of these and I must say, "separate the maximum distance between you and Olaf" seems like pretty toxic design, that means you give up all objectives on the map if he's near...

woodvsmurph1 votes

As opposed the the olaf wondering why he is designed to either have enough damage to kill you but not tanky enough or tanky enough but not the damage to kill you late game despite building/itemizing properly? Also, if you have a team, try focusing him down. If you are ap: item 3116 gives you hp and punishes his team for trying to follow him, item 3151 gives you hp and punishes him building hp, item 3157 buys you time when he closes the gap during his ult. All 3 of those items give you some degree of survivability vs olaf.

An Undead brat1 votes

Well the problem is I build these every game on Zyra, but I don't remember facing Olaf as her. And I build those every game on her (Zhonya's depending).

Another problem is he has damage to kill me even if he's full tank. I wonder how's that possible. Especially if I tried to slow his team down, I'm dead by the time because of Olaf, or I can focus Olaf and then the enemy team kills the rest. I know Olaf doesn't have 100% winrate but... I actually don't see why.

woodvsmurph1 votes

He has the damage early/mid game. Late game he doesn't unless your team fed him HARD or you are positioning poorly. If you position well and focus him with your TEAM, you will kill him before he kills you late game. Early/mid game, you probably die or your adc or whoever he focuses first will die if the fight is even numbers. That's kinda what he's designed to do. So position yourself to do the most damage to his whole TEAM that can win your TEAM the fight. If olaf kills you, but your team aces them while your support or jungle or top or adc survives, then good for you -- you won even though olaf killed you. You can also help this by: not fighting over objectives if you can't win the teamfight, poke enemy team out before commiting to an all-in, get a kill/pick in lane or jungle before the fight over objective starts. Communicate with team WHO to focus first, why, and maybe who else to focus if enemy x isn't at that fight or in range to focus first.

Martensitic1 votes

Its funny how being a toplane main changes perspective.

A mage sees Olaf pop ultghost: "OMG! OMG! OMG! IM GONNA FUKN DIIIIEEEEE!"

A Nasus main toplaner sees Olaf pop ultghost: "Come back you coward!"

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Handy Sandy 1 votes

Do a bunch of damage to him. Just damage him in any way you can and do your best to really hurt him before he reaches you.

boo9101 votes

he cant ult u whens hes dead can he

in all seriousness you should be able to kill him before he reaches you cause zyra

An Undead brat1 votes

I don't play Zyra everytime...

woodvsmurph1 votes

Play a different game for awhile -- if you look away and don't see it happen, it didn't happen right? Dodge his axes and run like mad if you don't have the damage to burst him down. Aatrox : there goes my passive, oh well, nice try maybe you will kill me next time Kayle : pop ult... think to yourself: I thought olaf dealt damage with his abilities

But mostly dodge and run unless it's late game and you can just burn him down -- if you dodge the axes and get to teammate or tower, you can probably kill him, escape, or trade 1 for 1. If you can't accomplish that, it means you didn't respect his damage and/or lack of warding by you/your team

An Undead brat1 votes

So I'm completely reliant on my team that they kill him before the enemy team kills them/us. Seems like pretty toxic RNG...

Stephenizgod1 votes

Be Veigar with 2500 AP, full build, level 18 then press R

xWaters1 votes

Maybe the support can choose Taric to counter olaf's dive the enemy strat?

An Undead brat1 votes

Counters are not a real counterplay

xWaters1 votes

Well it's the best solution I can think of cause that renders Olaf useless. Since you play a Mage, take ghost as well. Although, olaf's typically go into the resolve tree and get the 15% CD-R on summoner spells so he will have it up more often than you. Another thing that comes to mind are champions with taunts, except I'm not sure if you can taunt an ulting Olaf.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

Galio + Bulkwark

lul, just healed me.

Anags1 votes

Have a champ that can drop terrain. Hop a wall.

Or the best advice, when he throws an ax use your mobility to go a different way. So many times people run straight away allowing him to just pick up axes and own them.

Focus him when he ults. There are things you can do. Why people don't invade his jungle more early I'll never no. He gets really low while clearing a lot.

An Undead brat1 votes

I'm actually pretty good at sidestepping, but when you do that, his movement speed gets him closer to you while you stop for a moment, so it's lose/lose scenario.

Meep Man1 votes

Play Rammus or Yorick

Faie1 votes

You should respect Olaf's range and not walk close enough to him to get chased down by his ghost/ult, especially if you know when both of his abilities are coming up. On that note, you also need to have the entrances to your jungle warded, or at least stay out of range of dangerous fog of war.

Requiemsfire1 votes

This might sound silly, but you CC him. Let me explain, Olaf isn't that tanky on his own, he has no defensive steroid beyond the life steal in his W active. To put it simply your team should try to force Olaf to burn either his ragnarock or his ghost at some point before a team fight, you must respect him greatly though when facing him, if he burns ghost/ragnarock odds are you will have to flash to escape. Also remember that when he's ragnarock his resistances go down a bit, so he's more prone to burst. Furthermore he only has a short duration to do this so item 3190 item 3107 item 3401 and finally take grievous wounds against him because it will hinder his life steal

XxxLumberJackxxX1 votes

Have thresh take you over a wall. Have Rahm eat you. Lulu shields Targon or locket shields

Phantom dancer and bt as early items

Use your escape tool or f over a wall.

Sylvant1 votes

depends, are you fed trynda? If so kill him are you ADC and you split from your team? then you deserve to die

Wild Wes1 votes

OOH OOH OOH I GOT IT MasterYi summoner 6 SEE WHOSE FASTER NOW OLAF

Shootyy1 votes

well duh! just pop your ult and ghost too!

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