Tips for playing Olaf.

tommyIAO·Mar 15, 2019·1 votes·1,694 views

I lane against Olaf's who destroy me. What are his strengths? I know the key is to land your axes and pick it up. I really want to be good with him so where do I start?

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Warwick MainMar 15, 20192 votes

Like a certain furry champion I love, Olaf is more powerful when he is below half health. Knowing when to pop your W is very important, because it also synergizes with your passive and is more powerful the lower your health is. Picking up axes is important but so is knowing how to animation cancel for your burst combo. Unfortunately I don't know the proper combo but I'm sure you can ask over at Olaf Mains on reddit.

tommyIAOMar 16, 20191 votes

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Like a certain furry champion I love, Olaf is more powerful when he is below half health. Knowing when to pop your W is very important, because it also synergizes with your passive and is more powerful the lower your health is. Picking up axes is important but so is knowing how to animation cancel for your burst combo. Unfortunately I don't know the proper combo but I'm sure you can ask over at Olaf Mains on reddit.

Can you explain what animation cancel really means?

Warwick MainMar 16, 20191 votes

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Can you explain what animation cancel really means?

Hey sorry I don't hang on the forums much. Animation canceling is interrupting the full animation of an ability or auto attack to use another ability or auto attack. The damage still goes off but the animation is cancelled allowing you to do more damage in a short amount of time.

For example a Jax that wants to go for a quick trade while farming can auto attack and cancel his auto attack with his W to get off a quick burst combo before Qing away. Rather than spend say 2 seconds allowing the whole auto attack and then W animation go off, he can make the same amount of damage go off in a single second, which makes it harder to react from. Animation canceling is very important because it allows sustained damage dealers to have a bit of burst for trades.