Katarina vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Katarina
based on 1,093 Katarina vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Olaf
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several important Katarina versus Olaf matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Olaf. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Olaf. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Katarina or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually wins when trying to fight Olaf, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate compared to Olaf, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Olafas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Olaf matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter for Olaf. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Olaf during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Olaf. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Katarina versus Olaf build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Olaf than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 51.8% when playing against Olaf with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Olaf as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Katarina vs Olaf counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
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