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Olaf Buff

Tusutaki··5 votes·1,197 views

Olaf is a champion that is only decent against certain top laners but outside that small selection pool and lane phase, he is severely underwhelming. Why is that? I would say his ult. While being immune to CC and a huge attack damage buff is nice, the duration is painstakingly short. With high mobility becoming more and more favorable, his ult becomes less and less impactful. By the time you activate your ult to get in range to attack the carries it's already gone. By the time you get into range, your ult's duration is over and are vulnerable to CCs again. What I propose is a small to moderate change.

Current PASSIVE: Olaf gains bonus armor and magic resistance. ARMOR & MAGIC RESIST: 10 / 20 / 30 ACTIVE: Olaf instantly removes all crowd control effects from himself and becomes immune to them for 6 seconds. During this time, he loses the passive bonus but gains bonus attack damage.

NEW PASSIVE: Olaf gains bonus armor and magic resistance. ARMOR & MAGIC RESIST: 10 / 20 / 30 ACTIVE: Olaf instantly removes all crowd control effects from himself and becomes immune to them for 6/8/10 seconds. During this time, he gains bonus attack damage.

Yay? Nay? Suggestions? Please let me know. I've also done a Shen Buff topic as well so please check it out. I want to see changes for champions that are under performing and that are need of change. http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/4dQMxVAv-shen-buff

22 Comments

WiegrafOfValor2 votes

Olaf is a great champion, probably you're building him wrong. Try to go full HP tank, with sunfire for armor, Maw and Visage for MR, Rush Warmog and boots, max your true dmg and trade every time it's up.

kaykalos2 votes

Low presence competitive, small win ratio solo q at diamond, master tier.He is bad, if u want check that stats

Carniverous1 votes

Go learn Olaf. .-.

Any and all champion in this game can be played effectively. To the point where you become a god among mere mortals. Olaf can reach 138% lifesteal. Try to duel that. At that point, you have to CC him or he won't die.

kaykalos2 votes

I speak about stats not theories

Duroxxigar2 votes

Olaf is in a bad spot right now. Not that hard to admit it. I personally think his lanning phase is awesome. I win that shit so many times. But that doesn't mean that he is in an okay spot.

Under your idea, Urgot is in a good spot.

Carniverous1 votes

I've always wanted to be good at Urgot, but I suck balls with him. Dx

Giovarco1 votes

Urgot is ok as he's and he's a beast if played correctly. I don't understand this racism towards Urgot.

Duroxxigar1 votes

There is no racism. It is fact. He is in a bad spot. Yeah there are players that make him look better than what he actually is, but that doesn't mean he is in a good spot.

Giovarco1 votes

He's in a bad spot because he's not viable in competitive plays. However, that doesn't mean she's bad or unplayable at all. I've 58% winrate with him and I'm ok with it. If people don't know how to use or counter him, it's not a problem of Urgot players. The fact that he needs a rework is another question.

Duroxxigar3 votes

Just because you personally do well with a Champion does not mean that the champion is fine.

Tusutaki1 votes

Any and all champion in this game can be played effectively. To the point where you become a god among mere mortals. Olaf can reach 138% lifesteal. Try to duel that. At that point, you have to CC him or he won't die.

Why would I want to duel that when I can just kite him to death or just blow him up instantly? Olaf needs a small buff to keep him on par with top lane. So does Shen still even though they gave a slight buff to him.

Carniverous1 votes

Ok, Olaf is on Par. In top lane, it's 100% dueling until a jungler comes to gank. If you land your Axes, and use your ult, you won't get Kited into Oblivion. With enough tankness you won't get 1 shotted.

I don't speak in Theories. I do reach that amount, and happen to live as 3 people are tying to hit me to death. I'll believe he sucks after I lose top lane constantly. Haven'tt happened for months. And when I lose, the skilled player earns my respect.

If kiting and blowing up is your style play an ADC, Mage, or assassin.

Hinro Honato2 votes

Low presence competitive, small win ratio solo q at diamond, master tier.He is bad, if u want check that stats

Win ratio means nothing. If you are counting anything other than 1v1 customs with your stats then you are simply ignoring far to many variables to base a champions strength off of. Feel free to link to where you are getting your stats from also. Could be interesting.

Carniverous1 votes

item 3153 First item makes you win lane phase. Go with 15 AD runes and 10 from the longsword. Your Ragnarok will hit for 100 and you don't get minion agro for it. AMazinnngg. Build armor to Anti the 8% No prob. True damage. Build HP to anti the true damage? 8% hurts more.

item 3153 item 3074 item 3078 item 3143 item 3065 (Boots of your choice) Typically I don't get Trinity, games don't last that long. Also take summoner 6 summoner 3 You can't be CC'd with your ult making youa ble to chase ADC's away like cake from a fat kid. Cake dosen't run, it's eated.

Basically this gives you life steal, just enough tanking, move speed, and items and spells in case you miss your Ax. Olaf is a great lifesteal tank. But can only tank like this if he can hit something. So, itemize to not get kited. Trinity can be switched out for more tanking, I suggest it, typically you'll want to tank more. You'll have no problem killing with just those two items.

kaykalos2 votes

Leblanc deathfire voidstaff, zed full armor pene, vayne can melt u straightforward , fiddle can beat u only with w, ,lucian, kalista, tristana,vayne, graves, corki can beat u with a bit of help. U mastered olaf, every mastered champion is better than one non mastered (sry for my english)

Carniverous1 votes

( don't worry about it man.)

1:Zed and Leblanc are tough because they can port to places to avoid you. If LB, or Zed use their ults on the tank they might kill you, but allow the rest of your team to not die from their ults. They are assassins, it's their job to murder someone and leave.

2:Vayne, get the blue trinket and mark her when she ults, proceed with build and chase.

3: I can't count the times a Fiddlesticks thought he could out heal me.

Anways, Olaf's Main role in teamfights is to chase the ADC away. Now like you said with Corki needing help, the support, or top laner leaves the team fight to Peel the Olaf off the ADC. Now while 2 are fighting you. Your 4 teammates go in on the other 3 people. It's up to your team to kill those guys. It's basically the same roll as Poppy. But you can't just walk a round for 7 seconds being invincible.

If you bring in situations that cause a champion to look inferior, you're not wrong. Those situations can be tough to deal with. In these times, avoidance becomes the best option.

It's like saying Anivia sucks because Fizz can kill her so easily.

kaykalos1 votes

{quoted} ( don't worry about it man.)

1:Zed and Leblanc are tough because they can port to places to avoid you. If LB, or Zed use their ults on the tank they might kill you, but allow the rest of your team to not die from their ults. They are assassins, it's their job to murder someone and leave.

2:Vayne, get the blue trinket and mark her when she ults, proceed with build and chase.

3: I can't count the times a Fiddlesticks thought he could out heal me.

Anways, Olaf's Main role in teamfights is to chase the ADC away. Now like you said with Corki needing help, the support, or top laner leaves the team fight to Peel the Olaf off the ADC. Now while 2 are fighting you. Your 4 teammates go in on the other 3 people. It's up to your team to kill those guys. It's basically the same roll as Poppy. But you can't just walk a round for 7 seconds being invincible.

If you bring in situations that cause a champion to look inferior, you're not wrong. Those situations can be tough to deal with. In these times, avoidance becomes the best option.

It's like saying Anivia sucks because Fizz can kill her so easily.

IF my opponent top have the same source of damage with my opponent mid i will pick olaf, at every other scenario it is very hard to deal with.Because if my opponents are both ap i can spam mr, and one thornmail is enough for adc.But i cant play him vs different sources(mid top) of damage at tfs, so i need to splitpush until visage or thornmail or omens

Carniverous1 votes

Well that's a very good plan. And your personal choice for when to pick Olaf. Me, I avoid playing Olaf if I know my top opponent is going to be ranged, and out harass me.

It's not like it can't be done, but a good Nid, Ryze, or Teemo will not let you get close enough.

kaykalos1 votes

{quoted} Well that's a very good plan. And your personal choice for when to pick Olaf. Me, I avoid playing Olaf if I know my top opponent is going to be ranged, and out harass me.

It's not like it can't be done, but a good Nid, Ryze, or Teemo will not let you get close enough.

Range matchups are not problem, just max q.At range matchups is only hard to kill them even if u are forward, only nida because of sustain, try to watch zion spartan olaf vs dyrus lulu at lcs

Carniverous1 votes

I used to max my Q before the changes. Because thatw as when you could throw the Ax at your feet and pick it up instantly. So besides the slow going up 5% I'm not sure why I'd want to.

And dude, I'm having touble reading that. But I'm guessing you're talking about a LCS match up?

kaykalos1 votes

{quoted} I used to max my Q before the changes. Because thatw as when you could throw the Ax at your feet and pick it up instantly. So besides the slow going up 5% I'm not sure why I'd want to.

And dude, I'm having touble reading that. But I'm guessing you're talking about a LCS match up?

yeap

Giovarco1 votes

I don't understand why people complain about Olaf. I find him very very strong. I often see end game statistics and I noticed that Olaf deals tons of damage against champions with no offensive items. Yes, he has his weakness, but he has lots of strengths: perma-slow, free lifesteal, free attack speed, true damages, free defensive / offensive stats. I'm not a fan of him, but if I wanted to change something on him, it would his ulti. I think that he should gain defensive stats while ulting and offensive stats while not ulting. In this case, I would change something in his E because the health cost scales with AD.

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