Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some strategic Olaf versus Aatrox matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Olaf’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aatrox’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Olaf may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aatrox..
Olaf normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Aatrox. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Olaf usually loses when trying to fight Aatrox, with a 46.7% win rate. As a result, Olaf makes a bad counter to Aatrox.
While Olaf does have a lower winrate than Aatrox, when they face off with one another, Olaf also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Olaf into Aatrox.
Moreover, Olaf has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Olaf vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Olaf is a garbage counter to Aatrox. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Olaf against Aatrox.
To learn all of the intricacies of Olaf in order to counter Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Olaf often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Aatrox. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Olaf versus Aatrox build consist of Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Ravenous Hydra. When Olaf incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Aatrox than with many other common builds. In fact, Olaf boasted an average winrate of 46.7% when countering Aatrox with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Aatrox as Olaf, Olaf players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Olaf vs Aatrox clashes, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.7% winrate overall.
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