Meet Olaf.

Tryce Maxwell·Dec 8, 2016·2 votes·557 views

I don't need AD items to do damage. My motto is, "A great defense is an even better offense" I say that because I can stack health items and out dps your entire team, shrug off CS, and do unmitigated true damage every 2.5 seconds to anyone I want, Based off my total health.

Generally I don't need to think, as long as I can throw and axe and shout angrily, people in front of me die. Riot should probably force me to actually buy AD items to do damage with, but there is a saying that says "if you get stuff for free, you don't need to work for it", It's true.

9 Comments

EndlessSorcererDec 8, 20164 votes

shrug off CS,

Truly, those poor little minions must feel useless against the mighty berserker.

do unmitigated true damage every 2.5 seconds to anyone I want, Based off my total health.

His E has no health-scaling damage. It only has the base damage and an AD ratio.

BorkahnDec 8, 20162 votes

Great points although I was thinking that you were going to point out that true damage can't be mitigated......that's why it's called true damage.....

EndlessSorcererDec 8, 20162 votes

It was a redundant modifier but not actually incorrect.

Big LincolnDec 8, 20164 votes

im tryce maxwell

i'm bitching about olaf. i will list his kit but exaggerate it so that he seems really overpowered, with no real point to my whining and no actual room for valid discussion

Tryce MaxwellDec 8, 20161 votes

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im tryce maxwell

i'm bitching about olaf. i will list his kit but exaggerate it so that he seems really overpowered, with no real point to my whining and no actual room for valid discussion

I actually down toned his kit. But you cant' deny that he has no punishment for going full tank

Big LincolnDec 8, 20161 votes

because he explodes otherwise

why would he build any damage when his bases are enough to keep him relevant? cleaver helps him kill tanks; he doesn't care about fighting tanks, he presses R and makes a beeline for the carry. it's better to be as durable as possible to survive 5 people trying to burst you down if your only goal is to dive the squishy DPS.

Tryce MaxwellDec 8, 20161 votes

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because he explodes otherwise

why would he build any damage when his bases are enough to keep him relevant? cleaver helps him kill tanks; he doesn't care about fighting tanks, he presses R and makes a beeline for the carry. it's better to be as durable as possible to survive 5 people trying to burst you down if your only goal is to dive the squishy DPS.

This is exactly my fucking point. His base damage is outrageous right now. He can duel people early, mid, and late like it ain't shit. And I know that's not the core focus of the game. But he does it in team fights too. He runs at who he wants dead, and so long as he has ghost, or some other MS steroid, that person is pretty likely going to die. Undertow's base damage is insane, coupled with the fact it's a strong slow, and the CD is nearly reset when he picks the axe back up. And.. in most cases, unless you have someone specifically built to trash him, and SPECIFICALLY him, he is going to take little damage and do his job perfectly.

Big LincolnDec 8, 20161 votes

full tank olaf is actually a shitty duelist in the scheme of things. back when bork was built on him frequently (i think bork+ravenous was his core back then) he was very good at it, but the current build? no, he'll lose every time to the likes of Jax, Fiora, Yi, or even Darius.

but full tank Olaf's base damages are high enough that he can kill squishy targets, and his ult pretty much enables him to do that even better since he gets a few seconds where he can just run down the enemy ADC without fear of being stunlocked to death.