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.
After using the more powerful, Awakened version of an ability, Udyr cannot Awaken other abilities for some time.
Udyr has limited ranged options, try to keep distance.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some strategic Olaf against Udyr matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the pair. Olaf’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Udyr’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Olaf may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Udyr..
Olaf normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Udyr. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Olaf usually wins when facing off against Udyr, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Olaf makes a good counter for Udyr.
While Olaf does have a higher win rate than Udyr, when facing one another, Olaf also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Olaf into Udyr.
Additionally, Olaf has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Udyr. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Olaf vs Udyr matchups, Olaf is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Olaf is a decent counter to Udyr. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Olaf against Udyr.
If you would like to truly master Olaf to counter Udyr during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Olaf often gets more CS compared to Udyr. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Olaf versus Udyr build include Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Death's Dance. When Olaf combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Udyr than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Olaf had an average winrate of 51.5% when playing against Udyr with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Udyr 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Olaf vs Udyr fights, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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