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Olaf Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 28,395 gamesUpdated

50.0%win rate1.2%pick2.8%ban

Who counters Olaf

Every Top matchup for Olaf, ranked →

How to build Olaf

Plated Steelcaps→Experimental Hexplate→Stridebreaker→Death's Dance

Plated Steelcaps → Experimental Hexplate → Stridebreaker → Death's Dance

56.7% win rate 17% of games 2,871 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast StandInspirationApproach VelocityBiscuit Delivery34% of games
SpellsFlashGhostFlash + Ghost67%
Skills
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Undertow
14578
Tough It Out
214151718
Reckless Swing
39101213
Ragnarok
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Olaf build →
50.0%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.8% over 67,333 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.0% over 28,395 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.5%at Emerald+
1.2%pick rate
2.8%ban rate
▼ Downwas Tier 2 last patch
52.3%under 22 min
48.8%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Olaf champion portraitT OlafvsK'Sante champion portraitT K'Sante
5 / 7 / 4

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Experimental Hexplate→Stridebreaker→Death's Dance→Randuin's Omen

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Olaf champion portraitT OlafvsAkali champion portraitT Akali
2 / 8 / 3

Build

Boots|Ravenous Hydra→Experimental Hexplate

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEW
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Olaf champion portraitT OlafvsGragas champion portraitT Gragas
3 / 3 / 0

Build

Boots|Stridebreaker→Experimental Hexplate

Spells & runes

FlashGhost|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQEEREW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 50.6% win rate · 34% of games · 9,573 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
InspirationApproach VelocityBiscuit Delivery
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 45.5% win rate · 16% of games · 4,545 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
ResolveBone PlatingRevitalize
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashGhostFlash + Ghost67%49.9%19,819 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash14%51.7%4,014 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps66%Mercury's Treads14%Gluttonous Greaves7%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 50.8% win rate

Olaf build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Stridebreaker1st
  2. Experimental Hexplate2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
10% of games that reach a third item take this path59.3% win rate1,638 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Olaf →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 28,627 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
65% · 51.1% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
13% · 49.5% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
7% · 57.0% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
6% · 53.4% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 34.3% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
2% · 57.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Stridebreaker›Experimental Hexplate+Plated Steelcaps6% of games · 45.5% win rate · 1,661 games
  2. Stridebreaker+Plated Steelcaps5% of games · 39.0% win rate · 1,494 games
  3. Stridebreaker›Experimental Hexplate›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 60.0% win rate · 882 games
  4. Stridebreaker›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 46.0% win rate · 759 games
  5. Experimental Hexplate›Stridebreaker+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 46.1% win rate · 558 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Olaf against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Olaf's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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