Modernizing Olaf´s kit

Van der Bares·5/30/2019, 3:05:49 PM·1 votes·1,084 views

Just a main Olaf jgl passing by, dont mind me. I just wanna share some ideas in order to make this champ more consistent/less abusive overall.

I always feel like your huge midgame power spike and early strenghs on dueling and counterganking are pointless. Since you´ve got no hard CC and no dashes it turns out that either you die when trying to reach enemy backline, even flanking, or you just build full tank and lose all your preassure cause of the lack of damage.

There should be some balance between the offensive departament and the surviving mechanics the champion provides, in order to make him able to have a role on TFs. Currently is just: crush a misspositioned carry and die, or just die. Therefore, i realized that the issue here is about how Olaf´s power splits into his skills:

  • Ragnarok deffensive bonus dissapears on the key moment, removing your only actual deffensive stats.
  • Meanwhile, the extra AD given on activation is either abusive or pointless depending the case.
  • W sustain is lifesteal, wich means his survavility is all about offensive power, where Olaf is outclassed by many other options. If this is meant to work this way, it should be way stronger and benefit more the all-in playstyle the berseker brings.
  • Undertow is just disgustingly powerfull early on for a crowd control tool.
  • Reckless swing is kinda legit, but doesnt really offer something interesting since you are forced to use it as much as you can to deal your damage, in fact is your only valuable offensive tool past midgame.

In order to this i thought about minor tweaks that could make him less of a "ball of stats" champion and more of a "excelling under preassure" threat.

PASSIVE - Berseker Fury

Olaf gains 1% Att. Speed for each 1% missing health. Upon falling below 40% max HP bonus increases to 2/3.5/5% Att. Speed at levels 1/7/13 and grants 14-30% lifesteal for 3 seconds. Durantion refrshes each second if Olaf doesnt heal over 40% Max HP.

Q - Undertow

Damage changed from: 80/125/170/215/260 +100% Bonus AD to 10/25/40/55/70 + 100% Total AD. Picking up an axe refunds 70% of ability cd and 25 mana. Mana cost: increased from 60 to 75. CD increased from 7 seconds to 10/9/8/7/6 seconds.

**W - Close Combat **

Olaf stacks 1/2/3/4/5 armor and magic resist up to 10 times for 6 seconds upon taking recoil damage when hitting champions or monsters.

On activaton, melee range attacks deal an additional 12/14/16/18/20% true damage and Olaf takes the same amount as physical or magic damage depending on enemies main sorce of damage for the next 6 seconds. Also increaes every healing effect over Olaf for 1% for every 2% missing health.

CD: 18/16/14/12/10 seconds No cost

E - Lokfar´s Might

Olaf leaps to a target unit withing 400 units, closing the gap. On landing, devastates a small demicircle shaped area in front him, surrounding the targeted unit. This causes 110/115/120/125/130% Total AD physical damage. Olaf reckless performance leaves him off guarded, causing to take a 5% recoil Damage for each unit struck that doesnt die to the impact. This skill interacts with Close combat. CD: 12/11/10/9/8 seconds. NO COST.

R - Ragnarok

Bonus MS on cast changed from 20/45/70% to 30/40/50%. REMOVED: passive bonus armor and magic resist. REMOVED: no longer grants AD on cast. Duration increased from 6 seconds to 6/8/10 seconds. NEW: On cast breaks free from every weakening effects. Think item 3071 stacks Trundle R or Q for example. Does not prevent them to be applied while active tho. NEW: empowers base abilities as following while active.

  • Moving torwards champions struck by undertow grants the on-cast bonus movement speed for the duration of the slow.
  • Instantly grants 1/2/3 stacks of Close Combat´s passive.
  • Lokfar´s might reduces its CD 1 second with each AA.

CD: changed from 100/90/80 to 120/90/60 seconds. NO COST.

Thats it. I´m just skipping the notes so the post is not too long and confusing, if someones want to say or ask something i´ll just use comment section to explain myself. Thx for reading.

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