Anivia vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Anivia
based on 499 Anivia vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Anivia vs Olaf Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Anivia
Tips for Playing as Anivia against Olaf
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
Advice to Win Against Olaf
Olaf has reduced defenses from damage during Ragnarok, despite being immune to disables. If you can't escape from Olaf during Ragnarok, try focusing your damage on him with your teammates.
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
Anivia vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Anivia in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some influential Anivia versus Olaf counter stats that can help you explain the distinctions between this set of champions. Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, showing that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Olaf..
Anivia typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Olaf. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Anivia or Olaf?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Anivia usually wins when taking on Olaf, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Anivia makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Anivia does have a higher win rate than Olaf, when facing one another, Anivia also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Anivia into Olafas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Anivia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Olaf matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Anivia is a decent counter to Olaf. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Anivia against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Anivia in order to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Olaf. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Anivia versus Olaf build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Olaf than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Anivia boasted an average winrate of 51.1% when playing against Olaf with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Olaf as Anivia, Anivia players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Anivia vs Olaf battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
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