Some things never change... (and some need to)

ChaosReyn·1/14/2020, 4:23:15 AM·3 votes·1,014 views

Every time I see Berserker teams, I'm still like "damn Berserker OLAF is busted."

It literally is Olaf. And only Olaf.

The other 5 are just to activate his 100% splash damage and extra damage. Like, Renekton is good for the eggroll, and Voli is nice for Electic comps...but those are supplementing people for their other traits. The ONLY reason you go 6 Zerker is to hyper-stack your Olaf. there's no strategy to it. It's "oh, I have good Olaf items, and I found an early Olaf!" throws in 6 zerkers with perfect olaf items, and just walks away from their computer on hitting lv 6.

That right there, instant top 4. Upgrades? Other than finding Lv 2 or (god help us all) Lv 3 Olaf, who needs them? They're nice to have, but they're not even fucking necessary. You automatically acquire Glacial from running 6 zerkers, so that "20%" freeze chance starts freezing 3 people at once on every 2nd autoattack of the round, and by the time anyone close to him can move again, he's ulted and charged up his rageblade, so there's your permanent freeze that NOTHING can stop, cause Olaf can't be cc'd.

Fucking change his ability to Undertow, you already gave Reksai a True damage ability, there's no reason you can't give it to a Berserker. It's still loads more balanced than "I instantly win the entire game from freezing everything near me off of my 2nd autoattack, becoming unstoppable, and 1v9ing your fucking team."

THEN you can balance Zerkers as a class, and not a singular unit. >.>

7 Comments

Heroboy101/14/2020, 9:08:15 AM2 votes

Olaf needs time and luck to not be focused before he ultimate. Even he get to ulti magic damage or rangers can delete him. Vest is best against him.

Look at master/challengers stats. You barely see Olaf in their late game comp because they keep the interest high and reach level 9. 5 tier units are much better.

Great Daimadoshi1/14/2020, 10:18:20 AM1 votes

Olaf is a treat only when you don't have any tool to cut off his heal. Get a Grievous Wounds item or Kindred, he will be still strong but manageable.

BlksDstroyCities1/14/2020, 7:26:22 PM1 votes

There are ways to deal with Olaf, this game has far bigger problems.

Brodka1/14/2020, 8:47:24 PM1 votes

Just another broken unit in this trash set, have you dealt with double RFC Olaf yet? It's like the devs didn't even test anything in this set before releasing it.

Saezio1/14/2020, 10:22:37 PM1 votes

infernal singed with morelo+poison. Soraka, hush. zephyr

And if you are gonna say olaf has perfect items, his enemies should be with perfect items too.

Like... Warden skarner with thornmail and pred buff and crystals.

BTW to make zerkers viable you need 2 solari in the first place, then add rfc x2 and you got some pretty specific item requirements. I find zed way more busted with light spat+redemption+ga/warmog/dragon claw. in general, zed counting for more than 1 light/warden etc needs to be fixed imo