Leona vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Leona
based on 1,322 Leona vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Olaf
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some valuable Leona versus Olaf counter stats that can help you realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Olaf. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Olaf. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Olaf
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Who is Better, Leona or Olaf?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Olaf, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Leona does have a higher winrate than Olaf, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Leona into Olaf.
Moreover, Leona also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Olaf matchups, Leona 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 teamfights.
Leona is a decent counter to Olaf. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically racks up a lot less CS compared to Olaf. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Leona versus Olaf build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Olaf than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 51.4% when playing against Olaf with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Olaf as Leona, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Leona vs Olaf matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.4% win rate overall.
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